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bgr_1088153 - PHRYGIA - LAODIKEIA Unité
120.00 €(Approx. 140.40$ | 104.40£)
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 150-100 AC.
Mint name / Town : Laodicée, Phrygie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,36 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli revers. Fine usure régulière. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Aphrodite ? drapée debout à gauche, tenant une colombe de la main droite.
Obverse legend : LAODIKEWN/ (PoU)
Obverse translation : (de Laodicée).
Reverse
Reverse description : Loup assis à gauche, levant l’antérieur droit et tenant une double hache (labrys) ; le tout dans une couronne.
Commentary
Type tout à fait inhabituel. Au revers, le loup symbolise le Lycos, rivière qui arrosait la vallée du même nom où se trouvait Laodicée.
A very unusual type. On the reverse, the wolf symbolizes the Lycus, the river that watered the valley of the same name where Laodicea was located.
A very unusual type. On the reverse, the wolf symbolizes the Lycus, the river that watered the valley of the same name where Laodicea was located.
Historical background
PHRYGIA - LAODIKEIA
(2nd - 1st century BC)
Laodicea, which was located in the valley of Lycos, owes its name to the wife of Antiochus II (261-246 AC.) who refounded the city. After the Peace of Apamea, the city entered the Attalid orbit. The cistophoric coinage does not seem to have started before the battle of Magnesia of the Meander (190 AC.) and, after the peace of Apamea, it seems to have been the only coinage of the great kingdom of Eumenes II and Attalus II and III until the death of the latter (133 AC.) who bequeathed his kingdom to Rome.
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