E-auction 662-686772 - PHOENICIA - TYRE Seizième de shekel
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Type : Seizième de shekel
Date: c. 425-394 AC.
Mint name / Town : Tyr, Phénicie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 8 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 0,45 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Revers agréable. Usure régulière. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Hippocampe ailé volant à gauche au-dessus des flots figurés par des lignes en zigzag ; grènetis circulaire cordelé.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Chouette debout à gauche, la tête de face, tenant transversalement un sceptre et un fléau égyptien ; grènetis circulaire cordelé.
Commentary
Poids très léger. Type anépigraphe. Les petites monnaies divisionnaires sont normalement beaucoup plus rares que les shekels, en particulier en bon état de conservation. Ce type en particulier avec l’hippocampe à gauche est infiniment plus rare. De plus sur cet exemplaire, le dauphin sous l’hippocampe semble absent.
Very light weight. Anepigraphic type. Small fractional coins are normally much rarer than shekels, especially in good condition. This particular type with the seahorse on the left is infinitely rarer. Moreover, on this example, the dolphin below the seahorse appears to be missing.
Very light weight. Anepigraphic type. Small fractional coins are normally much rarer than shekels, especially in good condition. This particular type with the seahorse on the left is infinitely rarer. Moreover, on this example, the dolphin below the seahorse appears to be missing.
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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