v53_0070 - SIKYONA - SIKYON Hemidrachme
MONNAIES 53 (2012)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 120.00 €
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 120.00 €
Type : Hemidrachme
Date: c. 330-320 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sykionia, Sicyone
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,73 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale et irrégulier, bien centré, à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement identifiable. Jolie chimère. Colombe de style fin. Belle patine de collection ancienne, légèrement granuleuse
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 : SI.
Obverse translation : (Sicyone).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Colombe volant à gauche ; dans le champ à droite, un globule.
Commentary
Poids léger. Pas de lettre ou de signature au revers.
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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