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bgr_262518 - SIKYONIA - SIKYON Trichalque

SIKYONIA - SIKYON Trichalque AU/AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Trichalque
Date: c. 90-60 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicyone, Sicyonie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19,00 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,10 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Magnifique tête juvénile d’Apollon. Revers de haut relief. Très jolie patine vert olive clair
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de Richelieu Numismatique (1996) et de la collection du Dr.Charles Haas

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Apollon à droite, les cheveux longs tombant sur la nuque.

Reverse


Reverse description : Colombe volant à gauche.
Reverse legend : SI/ AINEAS.
Reverse translation : (Sicyone/ Aineas).

Commentary


La datation de cette émission est complètement modifiée et redescendu de plus de 150 ans. Placée dans les années 250-200 par les auteurs traditionnels, dans la collection BCD, le classement est situé au Ier siècle avant J.-C.

Historical background


SIKYONIA - SIKYON

(3rd - 1st 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. After the First Macedonian War, Sicyon entered the Achaean League. The latter was dissolved in 146 BC after the fall and destruction of Corinth and the final enslavement of Greece.

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