v57_0046 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Decalitrai

MONNAIES 57 (2013)
Starting price : 650.00 €
Estimate : 950.00 €
Realised price : 650.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 700.00 €

Type : Decalitrai

Date: c. 215-214 AC.

Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile

Metal : silver

Diameter : 23 mm

Orientation dies : 10 h.

Weight : 8,52 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier, légèrement éclaté à 12 heures avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait de Hieronymus. Joli revers de style fin. Belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés

Catalogue references :

ANS.1025 - MIAMG.5067 (1000€) - GC.994 - BMC.- - RQEMH.49 - HGCS. 2/

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES V, n°23

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Hiéronymoy à gauche.

Reverse

Reverse description : Foudre ailé.

Reverse legend : BASILEOS/ IERONUMOU/ MI

Historical background

SICILY - SYRACUSE

(215-214 BC)

Hieronymoy

After the death of Hiéron, in 215 before J. - C., his nephew succeeds to him; he was nicknamed "the little Hieron" to differentiate him from his august predecessor. The new monarch allied with Carthage and Hannibal who was then in southern Italy, in Capua. Unfortunately, he will regret this alliance; he was overthrown the following year and the Republic was restored. This gesture by the new rulers was not enough to prevent the Romans from invading Sicily and laying siege to Syracuse. Despite fierce resistance and the assistance of the war machines imagined by Archimedes, in particular the incendiary mirrors, the city falls. Marcellus, the Roman Imperator, tries in vain to save the great scientist who is assassinated by a soldier. Syracuse is given over to plunder. The Romans are masters of all of Sicily in 210 BC.

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