v43_0136 - SIKYONA - SIKYON Drachme
MONNAIES 43 (2010)
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 360-330 AC.
Mint name / Town : Skyonia, Sicyone
Metal : silver
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,18 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés à l’usure importante, parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Légèrement taché au droit. Joli revers. Patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Chimère passant à gauche.
Obverse legend : SA
Reverse
Reverse description : Colombe volant à gauche ; le tout dans une couronne d'olivier.
Commentary
Poids léger. Contremarque en creux sur le corps de la colombe, formant une sorte de swastika. Ce type semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
Historical background
SIKYONA - SIKYON
(4th century BC)
Sicyone, at the mouth of the Isthmus of Corinth in the Peloponnese, was the smallest political entity in this region with Phlius which it touched. Landlocked between Achaia and Argolis, it had been described by Homer in the Iliad as having been part of the kingdom of Agamemnon. We have little information on the history of the city before the end of the Persian Wars except that the region was often devastated by the Athenians, in particular under Pericles in 454 BC, according to E. Babelon. Coinage would only begin to become important after the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 BC..
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