bgr_527716 - PHLIASIA - PHLIUS obole

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Price : 250.00 €

Type : obole

Date: c. 400-350 AC.

Mint name / Town : Phlious, Phliasia

Metal : copper

Diameter : 11,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 0,76 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré des deux côtés. Joli droit. Patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés

Catalogue references :

BMC.- - Cop.7 - HGCS. 5/156

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient du stock de CNG, de la vente Triskeles 13 du 20 novembre 2014, n° 55 et de la collection BCD avec son étiquette) (pas dans la vente LHS 96)

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Protomé de taureau chargeant à gauche.

Reverse

Reverse description : Lettre grecque accostée de quatre globules.

Reverse legend : F.

Reverse translation : (Phlius).

Commentary

Poids très léger. Grand Phi au revers. Exemplaire au pedigree prestigieux.

Historical background

PHLIASIA - PHLIUS

(5th - 3rd century BC)

Phlious was the main city of the Pliasia region located in the northeast of the Peloponnese above the Nemea valley. It was surrounded by Argolis, Achaia, Arcadia, Sicyon and Corinth. Phlious would have been called Arantia before taking the name of Phlious, name of the grandson of Téménos. The city was an ally of Sparta and participated in the Persian Wars by providing contingents at Thermopylae in 480 BC with Leonidas and the following year at Plataea. In the Peloponnesian War, she opposed Athens. The city went into decline in the 4th century BC..