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v36_0149 - ACHAIA - ACHAEAN LEAGUE - ARGOS Hemidrachme

ACHAIA - ACHAEAN LEAGUE - ARGOS Hemidrachme XF
XF
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Hemidrachme
Date: c. 196-168 AC
Mint name / Town : Elis, Olympie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 2,08 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré. Beau portrait. Usure régulière. Patine de collection ancienne gris foncé
Catalogue references :
BMC.49 pl. 1/15 - GC.2993 var.

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Zeus à droite.

Reverse

Reverse legend : F-A.
Reverse description : Grand monogramme dans une couronne de laurier.
Reverse legend : (AC)/ (So)-(IS).

Commentary

Poids très léger.

Historical background

ACHAIA - ACHAEAN LEAGUE - ARGOS

(196-146 BC)

Argos would have been founded by Inachus, Phoroneus, his son, or Argos his grandson. The city was located at the bottom of the Gulf of Argolis. She appears in History around 750 BC with Phidion. It was the second city of the Peloponnese after Sparta. She was subjugated by it in 524 BC thanks to the victory of Cleomenes. Argos became Sparta's hereditary enemy and took the Persian side in the Persian Wars, then allied with Athens in the Peloponnesian War. It entered the Achaean League in 243 BC. After the Roman conquest, it was part of the province of Achaia.

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