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bgr_947257 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Hemidrachme

SICILY - SYRACUSE Hemidrachme XF
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Price : 450.00 €
Type : Hemidrachme
Date: c. 343-317 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : silver
Diameter : 14,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,79 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée à l’usure régulière. Joli revers. Portrait agréable. Patine grise
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse description : Tête d’Athéna de trois quarts de face à droite coiffée du casque attique à triple aigrette ; deux dauphins dans le champ à gauche, un à droite.
Obverse legend : SU-RAK-O-SI-O-N.
Obverse translation : (de Syracuse).

Reverse


Reverse description : Cavalier nu sur un cheval au pas à droite, levant l’antérieur gauche ; dans le champ supérieur gauche, un astre surmontant un épis.
Reverse legend : N.

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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