bgr_444309 - SIKYONIA - SIKYON Statère

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Price : 850.00 €

Type : Statère

Date: c. 431-400 AC.

Mint name / Town : Sicyone, Sykionia

Metal : silver

Diameter : 23 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 12,27 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés à l’usure régulière. Joli droit bien venu à la frappe. Joli revers. Patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés

Catalogue references :

BMC.46 - B. traité761 pl. CCXIX/31 - P.- - SB.- - HGCS. 5/187

Obverse

Obverse description : Chimère passant à droite.

Obverse legend : SE.

Reverse

Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Reverse description : Colombe volant à droite ; le tout dans une couronne d'olivier.

Commentary

Au revers, il n’y a aucune marque distinctive.

Historical background

SIKYONIA - SIKYON

(5th 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.