bgr_452426 - PERSIA - ACHAEMENID KINGDOM - ARTAXERXES II MNEMON Sicle
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Price : 175.00 €
Type : Sicle
Date: c. 400-350 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sardes, Lydie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15 mm
Weight : 4,48 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale bien centré à l’usure importante, identifiable. Patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de GN et de la collection Laurent F
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Le Grand Roi barbu, en archer mélophore, à demi-agenouillé à droite, coiffé de la cidaris, vêtu de la candys tirant à l’arc ; le carquois rempli de flèches suspendu à son épaule est bien visible.
Reverse
Reverse description : Carré creux allongé, présentant des aspérités irrégulières.
Commentary
Poids léger. Ce type bien particulier était attribué par Babelon à Artaxerxès II Mnémon. Sur cet exemplaire, le roi est barbu. Type 4.
Lightweight. This particular type was attributed by Babylon to Artaxerxes II Mnemon. In this example, the king is bearded. Type 4
Lightweight. This particular type was attributed by Babylon to Artaxerxes II Mnemon. In this example, the king is bearded. Type 4
Historical background
PERSIA - ACHAEMENID KINGDOM - ARTAXERXES II MNEMON
(405-359 BC)
Artaxerxes II Mnemon (who has memory) has the longest reign in Achaemenid history. He succeeds his father Darius II in 405 and must first fight against his half-brother, Cyrus the Younger who is finally eliminated after the retreat of the "ten thousand" immortalized by Xenophon. His reign marks the beginning of the long decline of the Persian Empire with the loss of Egypt. However, the great King held the role of arbiter between Athens and Sparta and recovered the cities of Asia Minor after the peace of Antalcidas in 386 BC. Artaxerxes saw the last twenty years of his reign darkened by sordid family histories and the widespread revolt of the Satraps of Asia Minor who obtained autonomy for their territories such as Mausole and his successors in Caria, Datames, Tiribaz and Mazaios in Cilicia. Artaxerxes dies in 359 BC leaving an open succession and an empire in crisis.
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