bgr_882072 - CARIA - CARIAN ISLANDS - NISYROS Demi-unité
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Price : 125.00 €
Type : Demi-unité
Date: c. 320 AC.
Mint name / Town : Nisyros, Carie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 12 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 1,04 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli revers. Usure régulière. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d’Aphrodite à droite, coiffée du stéphané.
Reverse
Reverse description : Dauphin à droite ; au-dessous un trident à gauche ; au-dessus du dauphin, une grappe de raisin.
Reverse legend : NISI
Reverse translation : (de Nisyros).
Historical background
CARIA - CARIAN ISLANDS - NISYROS
(4th - 3rd century BC;)
The small island of Nisyros, located southwest of the Carian coast in the Dodecanese, was born from a fight between Poseidon and a giant. The inhabitants of the island, of Dorian origin, founded a temple dedicated to the god of the sea in an eponymous city. Nisyros took part in the Ionian revolt in 494 BC. She entered the league of Delos after 479 BC and paid tribute in Athens. At the end of the Peloponnesian War, it came under Spartan influence. In the following century, it seems to have been influenced by the Carian satraps. After having belonged for a short time to Philip V of Macedon, it returned definitively to Rhodian orbit..
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