Live auction - bgr_878211 - SIKYONA - SIKYON Hemidrachme
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| Estimate : | 250 € |
| Price : | 240 € |
| Maximum bid : | 460 € |
| End of the sale : | 23 January 2024 14:19:52 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Hemidrachme
Date: c. 360-330 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicyone, Sikyonie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,77 g.
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire, centré des deux côtés. Très beau revers, bien venu à la frappe. Jolie chimère. Monnaie trouée. Patine grise avec de légers reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Chimère passant à gauche.
Obverse legend : SE
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Colombe volant à gauche .
Reverse legend : S
Commentary
Monnaie trouée à 12h.
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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