Tetradrachm - Sabakes Egypt Satrapy

Features

Issuer Satrapy of Egypt (Achaemenid Satrapies)
Satrap Sabaces (343 BC - 333 BC)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 343 BC - 333 BC
Value Tetradrachm (4)
Currency Drachm (550-330 BCE)
Composition Silver
Weight 17.15 g
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
80670
References SNG Copenhagen# 3
Niels Breitenstein, Willy Schwabacher; 1942. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum / Volume 1. Italy, Part 1 : Etruria - Campania. Einar Munksgaard, Copenhagen, Denmark.
And 43 more volumes.

Obverse

Helmeted head of Athena right

Reverse

Owl standing r., head facing, crescent and olive spray to l., Aramaic or Hieroglyphic legend

Lettering: SWYK or CHIVS

Comments

After years of independence from Persia, Egypt was finally recovered in 343 by the Persian king Artaxerxes III. In the last decade of Persian rule, various local satraps took it upon themselves, as the need arose, primarily to pay for mercenary Greek soldiers, to strike Tetradrachms with Athenian types, but bearing their own names in Aramaic script. Such issues are known for Sabakes, the satrap of Egypt. In 333 B.C. Sabakes led a contingent from Egypt to join the Persian army facing Alexander. He died at Issos.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (343 BC - 337 BC)  Memphis
ND (338 BC - 333 BC) 

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