bgr_273233 - SICILY - SELINUS Hemilitron
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Price : 250.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2021)
Price : 250.00 €
Type : Hemilitron
Date: c. 415-409 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sélinonte, Sicile
Metal : copper
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,27 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, bien centré avec le grènetis visible au droit. Très belle tête d’Héraklès au droit. Revers de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe. Très belle patine verte
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête imberbe d’Héraklès (Hercule) 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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