MONNAIES 32 (2007)
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
Realised price : 310.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 360.00 €
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
Realised price : 310.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 360.00 €
Type : Hemidrachme
Date: c. 360-330 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicyone
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 2,85 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage sur un petit flan, néanmoins bien centré, en particulier au revers. Sujets bien venus à la frappe et de haut relief. Magnifique patine de médaillier
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Chimère passant à gauche.
Obverse legend : SI
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Colombe volant à gauche ; dans le champ à droite, trois globules en forme de triangle.
Commentary
Sur ce type, il existe plusieurs manières de représenter les trois points qui sont posés différemment. Les trois globules sont particulièrement bien visibles sur cet exemplaire et cette combinaison n’était pas signalée par Ernest Babelon dans le Traité, p. 533-534.
On this type, there are several ways of representing the three points which are placed differently. The three globules are particularly visible on this example and this combination was not reported by Ernest Babelon in the Treatise, p. 533-534
On this type, there are several ways of representing the three points which are placed differently. The three globules are particularly visible on this example and this combination was not reported by Ernest Babelon in the Treatise, p. 533-534
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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