bgr_983745 - PHOENICIA - TYRE Quart de shekel
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Price : 440.00 €
Type : Quart de shekel
Date: c. 425-394 AC.
Mint name / Town : Tyr, Phénicie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,38 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Très joli revers, bien venu à la frappe. Droit à l’usure régulière. Patine grise
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Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection André Ronde
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Melqart assis sur un hippocampe ailé volant à droite au-dessus des flots figurés par des lignes en zigzag, tenant un arc de la main droite et les rênes de la main gauche ; à l’exergue, sous les vagues, un dauphin voguant à droite ; grènetis circulaire cordelé.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Chouette debout à droite, la tête de face, tenant transversalement un sceptre et un fléau égyptien ; grènetis circulaire cordelé.
Commentary
Type anépigraphe. Les monnaies divisionnaires sont normalement plus rares que les shekels, en particulier en bon état de conservation.
Anepigraphic type. Divisional coins are normally rarer than shekels, especially in good condition.
Anepigraphic type. Divisional coins are normally rarer than shekels, especially in good condition.
Historical background
PHOENICIA - TYRE
(5th - 4th century BC)
Tyre, according to tradition, seems to have been founded by settlers from Sidon, its future great rival. Tyrian settlers founded Carthage in 814 BC. Tire was one of the main ports of Phenicia and one of the most important trading places in the Eastern Mediterranean. Tire refused to submit to Alexander the Great in 332 BC. The siege of the city lasted seven months from January to August under very difficult conditions. Alexander was ruthless and had the population massacred or enslaved. Tire did not disappear, was rebuilt. After the death of Alexander, it often changed masters: Perdiccas in 321 AC., Ptolemy the following year, then it was the turn of Antigone le Borgne in 314 before returning to Ptolemy's hands two years later. In 294 BC, Tire entered Seleucid orbit. After 274 BC, a new era seems to begin for Tyr. The city will be autonomous after 126 before J. - C. and will know a new political and economic rise without forgetting monetary which will continue under the Roman domination.
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