v49_0081 - SICILY - SELINUS Hemilitron, (PB, Æ 15)
MONNAIES 49 (2011)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 145.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 151.00 €
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 145.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 151.00 €
Type : Hemilitron, (PB, Æ 15)
Date: c. 415-409 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicile, Sélinonte
Metal : copper
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 3,14 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais, bien centré au droit, un peu court au revers. Très beau portrait d’Héraklès. Joli revers de style fin, bien venu à la frappe. Très belle patine vert olive foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock d’OGN (1997)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête imberbe d’Héraklès (Hercule) à à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Arc et carquois vu de face.
Reverse legend : SE
Reverse translation : (Sélinonte).
Commentary
Poids léger.
Historical background
SICILY - SELINUS
(5th century BC)
Selinunte was founded by Megarian settlers. The new coinage begins after 466 BC when Selinunte experienced great economic prosperity. The aggression against Segesta, in 413 BC, provoked the intervention of Athens in Sicily and the disastrous expedition of Alcibiades recounted by Thucydides in the Peloponnesian War. The city emerged victorious from this first test, but could not resist the Carthaginian invasion. The city, besieged, was destroyed in 409 BC and came under Carthaginian domination.
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