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bgr_228981 - PERSIS - KINGDOM OF PERSIS - UNKNOWN KING Hemidrachme

PERSIS - KINGDOM OF PERSIS - UNKNOWN KING Hemidrachme VF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 75.00 €
Type : Hemidrachme
Date: c. 100 AC. - 100 AD.
Mint name / Town : Perside, Persépolis
Metal : silver
Diameter : 14,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 1,12 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier, échancré. Beau portrait, en particulier la tiare, finement détaillé. Revers stylisé. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés
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Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé et drapé du roi à gauche, tête coiffée de la tiare ornée d’un croissant de lune pointé, un bandeau simple, avec nœud qui tombe derrière la tête, la barbe triangulaire courte, les cheveux longs tombant sur la nuque ; triskèle derrière le buste.

Reverse


Reverse legend : LÉGENDE ARAMÉENNE.
Reverse description : Représentation d’un double diadème.

Commentary


Poids excessivement léger. La tiare est ornée d’un croissant pointé entre deux étoiles, symbole lunisolaire du culte mazdéen.

Historical background


PERSIS - KINGDOM OF PERSIS - UNKNOWN KING

(1st century BC - 1st century AD)

La Perside seems to have played an important role in the history of the Achaemenid Empire. Persepolis was one of the capitals of the Empire. La Perside kept a certain autonomy under the Macedonian domination which was perpetuated under the Parthians. The founder of the dynasty seems to have been Bagadate at the end of the 3rd century BC. The descendants of the monarchs of Perside seized the Parthian throne in order to found a new dynasty, the Sassanids. The unknown king (Y for de Morgan) would find his place between Napat, son of Namupat, grandson of Artaxerxes II (c. 57 BC) and Autophradate III.

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