Live auction - bgr_990995 - SICILY - MOTYA Tetras
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Live starting : Type : Tetras
Date: c. 405-400 AC.
Mint name / Town : Motya, Sicile
Metal : copper
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 6,53 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Usure importante mais régulière. Joli revers. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : INSCRIPTION PHÉNICIENNE.
Obverse description : Palmier avec dix palmes et fruit.
Reverse
Reverse description : Tête de Méduse de face (Gorgoneion), la langue pendante ; au-dessous, trois globules ; grènetis circulaire.
Commentary
Pour ce type G. Buceti a recensé quinze exemplaires pour deux variétés en fonction de la tête de Méduse au revers, bouche fermée ou ouverte avec des poids compris entre 4,15 g et 9,60 g. D’après R. Calciati, il y avait seulement trois exemplaires répertoriés dont celui-ci serait le plus bel exemplaire connu. Semble de même coin de revers que l’exemplaire reproduit dans l’ouvrage d’O. Hoover (HGCS. 2/ 940).
Historical background
SICILY - MOTYA
(5th - 4th century BC)
Moyta was located on an island off the northwest coast of Sicily. Colonized very early by the Carthaginians, it became a prosperous city. The city was surrounded by high walls. It was famous commercially for the exploitation of murex (shell) and its ceramics. Motya became one of the three strategic centers of Carthaginian Sicily with Solus and Panorme at the end of the 5th century BC by becoming a port for the Carthaginian fleet. After the destruction of Selinunte by Hannibal Mago in 409 BC, the city had to face the Greek raids which intensified with the arrival of the Syracusans. The city underwent a devastating siege in 397 BC. The city was taken over by the Carthaginians the following year thanks to Himilcon. The city never regained its importance and finally the site of Lilybea was preferred to it..
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