Reino Aqueménida, Pérsia, Sardes. Time of Darios I to Xerxes I (ca. 485 BC). Siglos / Carradice Type IIIa (Sem preço de reserva)
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Reino Aqueménida, Pérsia, Sardes. Time of Artaxerxes I to Xerxes II (455-420 BC). Siglos / Carradice Type IV A (pl. XIII, 33) (Sem preço de reserva)
Persia, Achaemenid Empire. Sardes – Time of Artaxerxes I to Xerxes II (455-420 BC) – AR Siglos.
Obv:
Persian king or hero in kneeling-running stance right, holding dagger and bow.
Rev:
Incuse rectangular punch
Reference: Carradice Type IV A (pl. XIII, 33); BMC Arabia pl. XXVII, 7
Weight: 4.24 g
Diameter: 13 x 16 mm
Metal: Silver
Siglos was the Greek transliteration of the Semitic denomination „shekel” which became a standard weight unit for silver in the Achaemenid Persian Empire after the conquest of Babylonia by Cyrus the Great in 539 B.C. Ironically, silver sigloi seem to have been struck primarily in the western part of the empire and the standard went on to influence several Greek civic and royal coinages in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.
Provenience: ex private collection.
See the pictures for more details and correct impression
N.º 82240071
Vendido
Reino Aqueménida, Pérsia, Sardes. Time of Artaxerxes I to Xerxes II (455-420 BC). Siglos / Carradice Type IV A (pl. XIII, 33) (Sem preço de reserva)
Persia, Achaemenid Empire. Sardes – Time of Artaxerxes I to Xerxes II (455-420 BC) – AR Siglos.
Obv:
Persian king or hero in kneeling-running stance right, holding dagger and bow.
Rev:
Incuse rectangular punch
Reference: Carradice Type IV A (pl. XIII, 33); BMC Arabia pl. XXVII, 7
Weight: 4.24 g
Diameter: 13 x 16 mm
Metal: Silver
Siglos was the Greek transliteration of the Semitic denomination „shekel” which became a standard weight unit for silver in the Achaemenid Persian Empire after the conquest of Babylonia by Cyrus the Great in 539 B.C. Ironically, silver sigloi seem to have been struck primarily in the western part of the empire and the standard went on to influence several Greek civic and royal coinages in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.
Provenience: ex private collection.
See the pictures for more details and correct impression
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