bgr_284903 - SIKYONA - SIKYON Obole
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 75.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 75.00 €
Type : Obole
Date: c. 330-300 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicyone, Sykionia
Metal : silver
Diameter : 11,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 0,70 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan à l’usure importante au droit. Joli revers. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Apollon à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Colombe volant à droite.
Reverse legend : SI.
Commentary
Poids très 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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