bgr_293871 - PHOENICIA - SIDON Seizième de shekel
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 195.00 €
Type : Seizième de shekel
Date: an 9
Mint name / Town : Sidon, Phénicie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 10 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 0,60 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit irrégulier flan bien centré des deux côtés. Joli droit avec la date peu visible. Revers bien visible. 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.
Obverse translation : (an 9).
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, mais c’est bien le cas avec une monnaie datée de l’an 9 (345-344 AC.) ou de l’an 19 (335-334 AC.).
These coins were sometimes given unfairly to Mazaios, satrap of Cilicia, but this is indeed the case with a coin dated from the year 9 (345-344 BC) or the year 19 (335-334 BC).
These coins were sometimes given unfairly to Mazaios, satrap of Cilicia, but this is indeed the case with a coin dated from the year 9 (345-344 BC) or the year 19 (335-334 BC).
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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