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| End of the sale : | 10 February 2026 14:25:09 |
Type : Unité
Date: c. 28-27 AC.
Mint name / Town : Berytus, Phénicie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 6,27 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Usure importante mais régulière. Portrait agréable. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée et barbue de Baal Berit (Poseidon) à droite ; derrière tête de trident.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LÉGENDE PHÉNICIENNE.
Reverse description : Baal Berit nu debout à gauche dans un quadrige d’hippocampes.
Reverse legend : BHRU/TI/ LGN
Reverse translation : (de Beyrouth, an 53).
Commentary
Les auteurs du Roman Provincial Coinage ont recensé vingt-et-un exemplaires pour dix-sept coins de droit avec un poids moyen de 7,67 g pour seize exemplaires et un axe des coins à 12 heures.
The authors of the Roman Provincial Coinage have recorded twenty-one examples for seventeen obverse dies with an average weight of 7.67 g for sixteen examples and a die axis at 12 o'clock.
The authors of the Roman Provincial Coinage have recorded twenty-one examples for seventeen obverse dies with an average weight of 7.67 g for sixteen examples and a die axis at 12 o'clock.
Historical background
PHOENICIA - BERYTOS
(2nd - 1st century BC)
Berytus (Beirut) is a very ancient city on the Phoenician coast. It would have been founded according to mythology by Chronos. Known by documents from the Pharaonic period, it only gained importance from the Hellenistic period. She rallied to Alexander the Great. It was often disputed between the Lagids and the Seleucids. It was given the name Laodicea of Phenicia under Seleucus IV or Antiochus IV in honor of their wife Laodice. A mint under the Seleucids, it had a new start when it received its status of inviolability from Antiochus VIII in 110-109 BC. It became autonomous in 81-80 BC with the start of 'a new era. It then experienced great prosperity thanks to the wealth of its hinterland. She followed the destiny of the cities of the East. After Actium, Octavian settled there the veterans of the V Macedonica and VII Gallica legions. Beirut was refounded as a Roman colony in 15 BC.
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