bgr_273235 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Hemidrachme
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 145.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 145.00 €
Type : Hemidrachme
Date: c. 344-336 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 19,00 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 5,04 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale et bombé. Très beau portrait. Joli revers bien venu à la frappe. Belle patine vert olive
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête féminine à gauche, le chevelure relevée en krobylos et retenue par une bandelette.
Obverse legend : [SURAKOSIWN].
Obverse translation : (de Syracuse).
Reverse
Reverse description : Protomé de Pégase volant à gauche ; lettre au-dessous.
Reverse legend : S.
Commentary
Poids léger. Sur cet exemplaire, l’aile de Pégase semble repliée sur elle-même et n’est pas pratiquement pas visible.
Historical background
SICILY - SYRACUSE
(344-317 BC)
Timoleon
After Dion's assassination in 354 BC, a period of instability ensued for ten years. Timoléon, originally from Corinth, landed in Sicily in 344 BC and took control of Syracuse. He restored Greek hegemony in Sicily by driving out the Carthaginians after the Battle of Crimisus in 339 BC. He set up a democratic government which unfortunately did not survive him, Agathokles seizing power from 317 BC. Nevertheless, for about twenty years, Syracuse knew a period of peace which allowed it to restore its finances and to develop an important program of urban construction, accompanied by the return of agricultural prosperity..
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