bgr_234940 - SIKYONA - SIKYON Hemidrachme
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 200.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 200.00 €
Type : Hemidrachme
Date: c. 330 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicyone, Sycionie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,64 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et régulier bien centré des deux côtés. Chimère de joli style bien venue à la frappe. Revers de style fin. Usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Chimère passant à gauche.
Obverse legend : SI
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Colombe volant à gauche ; dans l’aile de la colombe, trois globules posés en triangle.
Commentary
Poids léger. Les trois globules sont particulièrement bien visibles sur cet exemplaire sur l’aile de l’aigle.
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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