bgr_344305 - SIKYONA - SIKYON Statère
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 650.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 650.00 €
Type : Statère
Date: c. 431-400 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicyone, Sikyonie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 11,97 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale centré des deux côtés. Chimère de bonne facture, mais à l’usure très importante. Revers de style fin bien venu à la frappe, élégant et équilibré. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Chimère passant à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse description : Colombe volant à gauche, tenant une olive dans son bec ; le tout dans une couronne d'olivier.
Reverse legend : F
Commentary
Notre exemplaire semble de même coin de droit que celui de la collection BCD, Leu 96, n° 198.3. Le type de revers semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
Our example seems to have the same obverse die as that of the BCD collection, Leu 96, no. 198.3. The type of reverse seems much rarer than general works suggest.
Our example seems to have the same obverse die as that of the BCD collection, Leu 96, no. 198.3. The type of reverse seems much rarer than general works suggest.
Historical background
SIKYONA - SIKYON
(4th century BC)
Sicyone, at the mouth of the Isthmus of Corinth in the Peloponnese, was the smallest political entity in this region with Phlius which it touched. Landlocked between Achaia and Argolis, it had been described by Homer in the Iliad as having been part of the kingdom of Agamemnon. We have little information on the history of the city before the end of the Persian Wars except that the region was often devastated by the Athenians, in particular under Pericles in 454 BC, according to E. Babelon. Coinage would only begin to become important after the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 BC..
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