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Type : Obole
Date: c. 411-394 AC.
Mint name / Town : Cnide, Carie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 9,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 0,79 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli lion. Revers agréable. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de lion à droite, la gueule ouverte, la langue pendante.
Reverse
Reverse description : Tête laurée d’Aphrodite à droite, les cheveux longs ; le tout dans un carré creux.
Historical background
CARIA - KNIDOS
(6th - 5th century BC)
Knidos was a very old city, a great economic, political and cultural centre. In 476 BC it entered the Attico-Delian league and remained there until 412 BC, after the Athenian defeat in Sicily. The coinage of Cnidus seems to resume at the beginning of the 4th century. It was off Cnidus, in 394 BC, that the Athenian Conon, aided by the satrap Pharnabazus, won a great naval victory over Lysander's Spartan fleet. Aphrodite, who was worshiped at Cnidus, is believed to have inspired Conon. Around 350 BC, Praxiteles executed at the request of the Cnidians a statue of Aphrodite which appears on the coinage until the Hellenistic period, more precisely until the battle of Magnesia in 189 BC..
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