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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 24493395, member: 128351&quot;][ATTACH=full]1552051[/ATTACH] </p><p>Sidon (Phoenicia), AE 16 mm dated year 188 (= AD 77/8, under Vespasian)</p><p>Obverse: turreted and veiled head of Tyche, r.; in front, star and aphlaston</p><p>Reverse: ΣΙΔΩΝΟΣ ΘΕΑΣ, ΗΠΡ (above), ΑϚ (below); galley, l.</p><p>RPC II, 2055a</p><p><br /></p><p>These small pseudo-autonomous coins (worth a Roman quadrans) were minted in Sidon from the reign of Claudius to the reign of Domitian, with another more emission under Hadrian.</p><p><br /></p><p>They were following a 500 years old local monetary tradition. Under the Achemenid Persian Empire, in the 5th c. BC, Sidon minted tiny silver coins with, on the reverse, a galley and the city-walls. In the Hellenistic period, the city-walls were represented as the mural crown of the Tyche. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1552052[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>On the imperial period coin, the legend Σιδῶνος θεᾶς (&quot;of the Sidonian goddess&quot;) explains the nature of the galley: she is the ceremonial galley of the goddess Astarte.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next: A Tyche[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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