bgr_392214 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Hemidrachme
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Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 480.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 480.00 €
Type : Hemidrachme
Date: c. 405 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : silver
Diameter : 11,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,93 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier à l’usure très importante, lisible et identifiable. Patine gris foncé de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête casquée d’Athéna de trois quarts de face à gauche, coiffée du casque attique à triple aigrette et entourée de trois dauphins.
Obverse legend : [S-U].
Obverse translation : (de Syracuse).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Quadrige galopant à gauche, conduit par l’aurige tenant les rênes et le kentron couronné par Niké volant à droite ; à l’exergue deux dauphins.
Commentary
Poids léger. Représentation tout à fait inhabituelle.
Historical background
SICILY - SYRACUSE
(405-367 BC)
Dionysos the Elder
During the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), Syracuse had to face on its territory the formidable Athenian expedition led from 415 BC by Alcibiades and Nicias. After the recall of the former, the Athenian fleet was cast in the port of Syracuse and the Athenians were defeated on the Assinarios in 413 BC, Nicias put to death and the survivors of the Athenian army condemned to hard labor in stone quarries (latomies). In 409, the Carthaginians invaded the island again and seized Selinunte and Himera, then Agrigento in 405 BC. Dionysius of Syracuse seized power and drove back the invaders in 397 BC .-C. The reign of Dionysius the Elder lasted another thirty years and it was Timoleon who succeeded him.
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