v53_0071 - SIKYONA - SIKYON Hemidrachme
MONNAIES 53 (2012)
Starting price : 95.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 95.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Hemidrachme
Date: c. 330-300 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sykionia, Sicyone
Metal : silver
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 2,76 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, épais, bien centré des deux côtés. Usure importante au droit. Jolie colombe au revers. Patine grise superficielle de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock CGB et de la collection Claude Lainé (colombe et paix)
Obverse
Obverse description : Chimère passant à gauche.
Obverse legend : SE
Reverse
Reverse legend : I DEVANT LE BEC DE LA COLOMBE.
Reverse description : Colombe volant à gauche.
Commentary
Poids léger.
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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