E-auction 103-54080 - bgr_343980 - PHOENICIA - SIDON Seizième de shekel
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| Estimate : | 150 € |
| Price : | 51 € |
| Maximum bid : | 51 € |
| End of the sale : | 06 April 2015 15:03:00 |
| bidders : | 8 bidders |
Type : Seizième de shekel
Date: c. 371-370 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sidon
Metal : silver
Diameter : 8,5 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 0,65 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré. Joli droit. Revers inhabituel. Patine gris foncé de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LETTRE PHÉNICIENNE (B).
Obverse description : Galère de guerre voguant à gauche avec rameurs, rames et boucliers ; zigzag figurant la mer.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Le grand Roi debout à gauche, tourné à droite combattant un lion dressé à droite, fuyant ; le tout dans les restes d’un carré creux.
Commentary
Galère ramassé. Seulement 45 exemplaires recensés dans le corpus de Sidon de J. et A. G. Elayi.
Galley collected. Only 45 examples recorded in the Sidon corpus of J. and AG Elayi
Galley collected. Only 45 examples recorded in the Sidon corpus of J. and AG Elayi
Historical background
PHOENICIA - SIDON
(5th - 4th centuries BC)
Sidon was with Tire one of the main ports of the Phoenician coast, essentially a military port. Sidon was one of the oldest cities in Phenicia. The city was famous for the commercial exploitation of purple (murex). Its coinage seems to have begun in the second half of the 5th century BC and lasted until the Macedonian conquest in 332 BC. The city submitted to the conqueror without a fight, unlike its neighbor, Tyr who resisted for seven months. The new coinage of Sidon began in 112-111 BC Pompey maintained the status of a free city, later confirmed by Marc Antoine. Autonomous coinage ceased in 30/29 BC.
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