bgr_524870 - SIKYONA - SIKYON Hemidrachme
Not available.
Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 195.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 195.00 €
Type : Hemidrachme
Date: c. 360-330 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicyone, Sikyonie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 2,78 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Joli droit à l’usure régulière. Revers de style fin , bien venu à la frappe. Belle patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Chimère passant à gauche.
Obverse legend : SI
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Colombe volant à gauche ; dans le champ à droite, un globule.
Reverse legend : NO
Commentary
Ce type semble plus rare.
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..
Report a mistake
Print the page
Share my selection
Ask a question
Consign / sellRelated articles
Full data
cgbfr.com numismatists
