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v59_0010 - SICILY - SYRACUSE 16 litrai

SICILY - SYRACUSE 16 litrai AU
MONNAIES 59 (2013)
Starting price : 950.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
Realised price : 950.00 €
Type : 16 litrai
Date: c. 250 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 13,01 g.
Rarity : R1
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan très large et complet des deux côtés avec un magnifique portrait. Revers de toute beauté avec une usure superficielle. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête voilée et diadémée de Philistis à gauche.

Reverse


Reverse description : Niké dans un quadrige au pas à droite, tenant les rênes ; devant les jambes du premier cheval, A ; croissant tourné à droite au-dessus de l’attelage.
Reverse legend : BASILISSAS// FILISTIDOS.

Commentary


Même coin de revers que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 876).

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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