bgr_343965 - PHOENICIA - TYRE Shekel
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Price : 1 750.00 €
Type : Shekel
Date: An 28
Mint name / Town : Tyr, Phénicie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 13,56 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan globulaire, ovale et irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés avec le grènetis visible frappé avec un très bon métal. Très joli droit, de style fin à l’usure régulière. Le revers est bien venu. Belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Dauphin sautant des flots au-dessus des vagues, représentées par des zizag ; à l’exergue, un murex tourné à droite ; grènetis circulaire.
Reverse
Reverse description : Chouette debout à droite, la tête de face, tenant transversalement un sceptre et un fléau égyptien ; le tout dans les restes d’un carré creux qui suit les contours de l’animal.
Commentary
Type anépigraphe. Précédemment, ce type était présenté comme un double shekel, mais il s’agit bien en fait d’un shekel, correspondant à deux sicles. Malgré la rareté du type, nous n’avons pas relevé d’identité de coin pertinente. Semble néanmoins plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. Rare en très bel état de conservation. Pour ce type les auteurs de l’ouvrage sur Tyr, J. Elayi et A. G. Elayi ont recensé 152 exemplaires.
Anepigraphic type. Previously, this type was presented as a double shekel, but it is in fact a shekel, corresponding to two shekels. Despite the rarity of the type, we have not noted any relevant die identity. Nevertheless, it seems rarer than general works suggest. Rare in very good condition. For this type, the authors of the work on Tyre, J. Elayi and AG Elayi, have identified 152 examples
Anepigraphic type. Previously, this type was presented as a double shekel, but it is in fact a shekel, corresponding to two shekels. Despite the rarity of the type, we have not noted any relevant die identity. Nevertheless, it seems rarer than general works suggest. Rare in very good condition. For this type, the authors of the work on Tyre, J. Elayi and AG Elayi, have identified 152 examples
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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