v08_0013 - SICILY - SYRACUSE 16 litrai
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 884.20 €
Estimate : 1 143.37 €
Realised price : 1 051.90 €
Starting price : 884.20 €
Estimate : 1 143.37 €
Realised price : 1 051.90 €
Type : 16 litrai
Date: c. 250 AC
Mint name / Town : Sicile, Syracuse
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,47 g.
Rarity : R1
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Flan large. Très Bel exemplaire avec un portrait réaliste
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête voilée et diadémée de Philistis à gauche ; derrière, une palme.
Reverse
Reverse description : Niké dans un quadrige galopant à droite, tenant les rênes et le kentron ; sous les pattes du cheval, E.
Reverse legend : BASILISSAS// FILISTIDOS.
Commentary
Mêmes coins que l'exemplaire venant de la vente de Giessener Münzhandlung 42, (11/10/1988, n°104) et reproduit dans l'ouvrage de B. Carroccio.
Historical background
SICILY - SYRACUSE
(274-216 BC)
Hieronymus, King of Syracuse
Around 270 BC, Hieron had married Philistis, a descendant of Dionysius the Elder (405-367 AC.), tyrant of Syracuse. Hieron claimed to have for ancestor Gelon himself (485-478 AC.), founder of the Syracusan power. An officer in Pyrrhus' army, he replaced the king after his departure in 274 BC and, during his very long reign, tried to maintain an uneasy balance between the Romans and the Carthaginians. After the First Punic War ended in 241 BC, Sicily became Roman and Syracuse's days were numbered.
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