bgr_285773 - PHLIASIA - PHLIUS Hemidrachme

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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 450.00 €

Type : Hemidrachme

Date: c. 270 AC.

Mint name / Town : Phlious, Phliasia

Metal : silver

Diameter : 15,5 mm

Orientation dies : 9 h.

Weight : 2,73 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan, bien centré des deux côtés. Très joli taureau chargeant. Beau revers. Très jolie patine gris foncé avec des reflets dorés

Catalogue references :

BMC.18 - GC.2756

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Rauch de septembre 2005

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Taureau chargeant à gauche.

Reverse

Reverse description : Lettre grecque dans une couronne de lierre.

Reverse legend : F.

Reverse translation : (Phlius).

Commentary

Poids léger. Grand Phi au revers. Hémidrachme du deuxième groupe avec six feuilles intérieures.

Historical background

PHLIASIA - PHLIUS

(5th - 3rd century BC)

Phlious was the main city of the Pliasia region located in the northeast of the Peloponnese above the Nemea valley. It was surrounded by Argolis, Achaia, Arcadia, Sicyon and Corinth. Phlious would have been called Arantia before taking the name of Phlious, name of the grandson of Téménos. The city was an ally of Sparta and participated in the Persian Wars by providing contingents at Thermopylae in 480 BC with Leonidas and the following year at Plataea. In the Peloponnesian War, she opposed Athens. The city went into decline in the 4th century BC..