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Live auction - bgr_918187 - PHOENICIA - ARADOS Tétradrachme stéphanophore
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Live starting : Type : Tétradrachme stéphanophore
Date: an 161
Mint name / Town : Arados, Phénicie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 15,23 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Traces de double frappe au droit et au revers. Très joli revers de style fin. Patine grise avec de légers reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste de Tyché à droite, coiffée d'une couronne tourelée, voilée et drapée ; grènetis.
Reverse
Reverse description : Niké debout à gauche, tenant un aplustre de la main droite et une palme de la main gauche ; le tout dans une couronne.
Reverse legend : ARADIWN/ XR/ L/ QS.
Reverse translation : (d’Arados, an 160).
Historical background
PHOENICIA - ARADOS
(3rd - 1st century BC)
Arados had entered the Seleucid orbit after the battle of Ipsos in 301 BC. The city emancipated itself from this tutelage in 259 BC. Arados then dates its coins from this new era. Under the reign of Alexandre I Bala, it destroyed Marathus, its neighbor and old enemy. From this date, the city issued a very important civic coinage (137-45 AC.) which was to last until the Caesarean period..
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