v36_0147 - SIKYONA - SIKYON Statère
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 1 400.00 €
Estimate : 2 500.00 €
Realised price : 1 400.00 €
Starting price : 1 400.00 €
Estimate : 2 500.00 €
Realised price : 1 400.00 €
Type : Statère
Date: c. 360-330 AC.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 12,18 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et bien centré des deux côtés. Frappe un peu molle au droit avec des traces de défaut du coin. Revers bien venu à la frappe gracieux et équilibré. Très jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Chimère passant à gauche.
Obverse legend : [SI]
Reverse
Reverse description : Colombe volant à droite ; le tout dans une couronne d'olivier.
Reverse legend : A
Commentary
Trace de cassure de coin au droit sous la chimère au niveau de l’inscription. Sur cet exemplaire de bonne conservation et d’une qualité de frappe remarquable, on distingue le plumage de la colombe et son œil.
Trace of a corner break on the right under the chimera at the level of the inscription. On this well-preserved example of remarkable striking quality, we can see the plumage of the dove and its eye.
Trace of a corner break on the right under the chimera at the level of the inscription. On this well-preserved example of remarkable striking quality, we can see the plumage of the dove and its eye.
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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