v53_0073 - ACHAEAN LEAGUE - SICYON Hemidrachme

MONNAIES 53 (2012)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 165.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 200.00 €

Type : Hemidrachme

Date: c. 196-146 AC.

Mint name / Town : Sykionia, Sicyone

Metal : silver

Diameter : 16,5 mm

Orientation dies : 3 h.

Weight : 2,33 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier. Légèrement tréflé au revers sur la légende. Joli droit avec une colombe bien venue à la frappe. Une fine patine grise recouvre l’exemplaire avec des reflets dorés

Catalogue references :

GC.2777 var. - BMC.195 - HGCS. 5/217

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES 32, n° 39 et de la collection Claude Lainé (colombe et paix)

Obverse

Obverse description : Colombe volant à droite.

Obverse legend : Q.

Reverse

Reverse description : Grand sigma dans les restes d’un carré creux entouré de légendes.

Reverse legend : KLE/A-[N/]DROS, (Kleandros).

Reverse translation : (Cléandre).

Commentary

Poids très léger. L’exemplaire de la collection BCD provient du trésor de Diakofto (IGCH. 262) trouvé en 1965.

Historical background

ACHAEAN LEAGUE - SICYON

(II - I 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.

ACHAEAN LEAGUE - SICYON Hemidrachme VF

120.00 €

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