bgr_237749 - PHOENICIA - SIDON Seizième de shekel

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Price : 80.00 €

Type : Seizième de shekel

Date: an 3

Mint name / Town : Sidon

Metal : silver

Diameter : 10,5 mm

Orientation dies : 11 h.

Weight : 0,67 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan décentré au droit, taché à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable

Catalogue references :

BMC.37 pl. 19/11 - GC.5940

Obverse

Obverse legend : LETTRE PHÉNICIENNE.

Obverse description : Galère de guerre voguant à gauche avec rameurs, rames et boucliers ; zigzag figurant la mer.

Reverse

Reverse legend : LETTRE PHÉNICIENNE.

Reverse description : Le grand Roi debout à gauche, tourné à droite combattant un lion dressé à gauche ; le tout dans les restes d’un carré creux.

Commentary

Ces monnaies ont parfois été données abusivement à Mazaios, satrape de Cilicie.
These coins were sometimes given abusively to Mazaios, satrap of Cilicia

Historical background

PHOENICIA - SIDON

(5th - 4th century BC)

Abd' Asthart Ier (Straton)

Sidon was with Tire one of the main ports of the Phoenician coast, essentially a military port. Sidon was one of the oldest cities in Phenicia. The city was famous for the commercial exploitation of purple (murex). Its coinage seems to have begun in the second half of the 5th century BC and lasted until the Macedonian conquest in 332 BC. The city submitted to the conqueror without a fight, unlike its neighbor, Tyr who resisted for seven months. The new coinage of Sidon began in 112-111 BC Pompey maintained the status of a free city, later confirmed by Marc Antoine. Autonomous coinage ceased in 30/29 BC.

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