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bgr_300883 - PHOENICIA - TYRE Vingt-quatrième de shekel

PHOENICIA - TYRE Vingt-quatrième de shekel AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 380.00 €
Type : Vingt-quatrième de shekel
Date: c. 4AC.
Mint name / Town : Tyr, Phénicie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 8,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 0,26 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale de haut relief. Joli droit, bien venu à la frappe. Revers magnifique où tous les détails du mufle du lion sont bien visibles. Patine grise superficielle avec des reflets dorés, légèrement granuleuse
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire a été acquis en 1999

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Dauphin sautant des flots au-dessus des vagues, représentées par des zigzag ; à l’exergue, un murex tourné à droite ; grènetis circulaire.

Reverse


Reverse description : Tête de lion de face ; grènetis circulaire.

Commentary


Poids très léger. Malgré la rareté du type, nous n’avons pas relevé d’identité de coin pertinente. Semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.

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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