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bgr_300945 - PHOENICIA - ARADOS Tetrobole

PHOENICIA - ARADOS Tetrobole XF
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280.00 €(Approx. 299.60$ | 240.80£)
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Type : Tetrobole
Date: an 131
Mint name / Town : Arados, Phénicie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 14,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 2,44 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier. Belle tête de Zeus à l’usure régulière. Joli revers de style fin, bien lisible. Patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
BMC.314  - GC.5993  - B.-  - HGCS. 10/64  - Cop.25-
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire a été acquis en 1989

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Zeus à droite.

Reverse

Reverse description : Proue de galère à gauche avec triple rostre, ornée d’un astre et un croissant surmonté d’une petite Niké (Victoria) debout à gauche.
Reverse legend : (AR).
Reverse translation : (Arados).

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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