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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Phoenicia| > GB96097
Persian Empire, Sidon, Phoenicia, Abdashtart I, c. 365 - 352 B.C.
|Phoenicia|, |Persian| |Empire,| |Sidon,| |Phoenicia,| |Abdashtart| |I,| |c.| |365| |-| |352| |B.C.|, Cyrus the Great conquered Phoenicia in 539 BC. The Persians divided Phoenicia into four vassal kingdoms: Sidon, Tyre, Arwad, and Byblos. It is likely that much of the Phoenician population migrated to Carthage and other colonies following the Persian conquest. In 350 or 345 B.C. a rebellion in Sidon led by Tennes was crushed by Artaxerxes III.
GB96097. Bronze AE 16, Betlyon 29; SNG Cop 203; BMC Phoenicia p. 147, 46 - 51; Lindgren II 2320; HGC 10 248 (S), aF, off center, red earthen deposits, Sidon (Saida, Lebanon) mint, weight 4.507g, maximum diameter 16.1mm, die axis 0o, c. 365 - 352 B.C.; obverse pentekonter (fifty-oared war galley) left, two zigzag rows of waves below, linear border, no date; reverse Persian king and driver in slow biga left; scarce; SOLD











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