bgr_759458 - ATTICA - ATHENS Hemidrachme
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Price : 500.00 €
Type : Hemidrachme
Date: c. 137-136 AC.
Mint name / Town : Athènes, Attique
Metal : silver
Diameter : 13,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,99 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie légèrement décentrée. Très joli revers. Patine grise avec reflets bleutés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Athéna à droite, coiffée du casque attique à cimier, orné de trois feuilles d'olivier et d'une palmette avec collier et boucles d'oreilles.
Reverse
Reverse description : Chouette debout à droite sur une massue entouré d’une couronne d’olivier.
Reverse legend : A/Q-E / MI-KI / QEOF-RA
Reverse translation : (Athènes).
Historical background
ATTICA - ATHENS
(5th century BC)
The fortune of Athens in the 5th century rests largely on the recovery of the treasury of the League of Delos which contained no less than five thousand talents of silver and which served to enrich and embellish Athens by oppressing the Allies. The Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) put an end to Athenian hegemony. Pericles (449-429 BC) did not live long enough to witness the fall of the city. Thucydides immortalized this conflict in his work devoted to the Peloponnesian War, of which he was one of the actors before being himself ostracized, that is to say exiled.
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