E-auction 112-59508 - bgr_357474 - PHOENICIA - SIDON Seizième de shekel
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| Estimate : | 75 € |
| Price : | 15 € |
| Maximum bid : | 19 € |
| End of the sale : | 08 June 2015 15:02:30 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Seizième de shekel
Date: an 3
Mint name / Town : Sidon, Phénicie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 9,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 0,65 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale irrégulier décentré au droit à l’usure importante, mais identifiable. Patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : DATE PHÉNICIENNE.
Obverse description : Galère de guerre voguant à gauche avec rameurs, rames et boucliers ; zigzag figurant la mer.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LETTRE PHÉNICIENNE (90).
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. Il faudrait plutôt les attribuer d’après Hoover à Evagoras.
These coins were sometimes wrongly given to Mazaios, satrap of Cilicia. According to Hoover, they should rather be attributed to Evagoras.
These coins were sometimes wrongly given to Mazaios, satrap of Cilicia. According to Hoover, they should rather be attributed to Evagoras.
Historical background
PHOENICIA - SIDON
(5th - 4th centuries BC)
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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