v34_0047 - SICILY - HIMERA Hemilitron
MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
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Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Hemilitron
Date: c. 420-408 AC.
Mint name / Town : Himère
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 3,73 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier. Beau portrait. Revers de haut relief. Très jolie patine vert jade clair lissée avec de minuscules concrétions vertes
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES IX, n°19
Obverse
Obverse legend : LÉGENDE RÉTROGRADE.
Obverse description : Tête de la nymphe Himera à gauche, les cheveux retenus par un sphendone ; devant le visage, six globules.
Obverse legend : IM-E
Obverse translation : (Himère).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Six globules dans une couronne végétale.
Historical background
SICILY - HIMERA
(420-408 BC)
Himère, a Chalcidian colony, was founded by inhabitants of Zancle in 648 BC. The city was taken by Théron, tyrant of Agrigento in 482 BC, and its population deported. After the end of the "akragantine" domination in 472 BC, the city underwent significant economic development until its final destruction by the Carthaginian forces in 408 BC. Its population, which had counted up to 'to 40,000 inhabitants, then took refuge in Therma.
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