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Live auction - bgr_811514 - PHOENICIA - ARADOS Drachme

PHOENICIA - ARADOS Drachme AU
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Estimate : 850 €
Price : 1 350 €
Maximum bid : 1 350 €
End of the sale : 06 June 2023 14:24:01
bidders : 7 bidders
Type : Drachme
Date: 103
Date: 164-163 AC.
Mint name / Town : Arados, Phénicie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,15 g.
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Revers finement détaillé. Très belle abeille. Patine grise avec de légers reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
BMC.161 var - GC.5989 var - Cop.-  - HGCS. 10/63  - Duyrat2763 pl. 34

Obverse


Obverse description : Abeille vue de dessus.
Obverse legend : VU-AS.

Reverse


Reverse description : Cerf à droite ; derrière un palmier.
Reverse legend : ARADIWN .

Historical background


PHOENICIA - ARADOS

(3rd - 1st century BC)

Arados had entered the Seleucid orbit after the battle of Ipsos in 301 BC. The city emancipated itself from this tutelage in 259 BC. Arados then dates its coins from this new era. Under the reign of Alexandre I Bala, it destroyed Marathus, its neighbor and old enemy. From this date, the city issued a very important civic coinage (137-45 AC.) which was to last until the Caesarean period..

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