bgr_978361 - SICILY - SOLUS Hemilitron
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Item sold on our e-shop (2024)
Price : 225.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2024)
Price : 225.00 €
Type : Hemilitron
Date: c. 400-350 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicile, Solus
Metal : copper
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 4,05 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli revers. Usure plus marquée au droit. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Hippocampe à droite, les ailes repliées.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Tête imberbe d’Héraklès à droite coiffée de la léonté.
Historical background
SICILY - SOLUS
(5th - 4th century BC)
Solus was a city of Carthaginian origin located about sixteen kilometers east of Palermo (Panorme). It then passed in the 4th century under Syracusan influence, definitively from Agathokles before falling under the control of the Romans during the first Punic war. It was then a tributary city.
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