bgr_694104 - SYRIA - SELEUCIA AND PIERIA - LAODICEA Tétradrachme stéphanophore
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Type : Tétradrachme stéphanophore
Date: 70-69 AC.
Mint name / Town : Laodicée, Syrie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 14,88 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie légèrement décentrée au revers. Joli buste de Tyché. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste de Tyché à droite, tourelé, voilé et drapé, entouré de la stemma.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus nicéphore trônant à gauche, tenant une Niké de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche ; le tout dans une couronne de laurier.
Reverse legend : LAODIKEWN/ THS IERAS KAI/ AUTONOMOU/ L/ IB// SE
Historical background
SYRIA - SELEUCIA AND PIERIA - LAODICEA
(82/81-49/48 BC)
Laodicea, founded by Seleucus I in memory of his mother, was the outer port of Antioch. Laodicea was declared a free city in 109/108 BC. In 82, it rose up against the Armenian domination of Tigranes. The new autonomous coinage of the city did not begin before 82/81 BC This type was minted until 49/48 and the arrival of Caesar in Syria. The coinage was then numbered from the following year and lasted until 17/16 BC, under Augustus, thus adopting the new Caesarean era..
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