Live auction - bgr_467495 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Hémidrachme
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| Estimate : | 550 € |
| Price : | 320 € |
| Maximum bid : | 320 € |
| End of the sale : | 06 March 2018 14:10:13 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Hémidrachme
Date: c. 343 - 339/338 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 13,67 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Belle tête de Zeus. Joli revers. Jolie patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection M. P
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée et barbue de Zeus Eleutherios à droite ; grènetis circulaire.
Obverse legend : ZEUS ELEU-QE-RIOS.
Obverse translation : (Zeus Eleutherios).
Reverse
Reverse description : Foudre vertical, un aigle dans le champ à droite ; grènetis circulaire.
Reverse legend : SURAKO-[SIW]N.
Reverse translation : (de Syracuse).
Commentary
Pour ce type, nous avons deux types de différents accostant le foudre au revers (grain d’orge ou aigle) et un revers sans différent qui semble plus rare. Cette variété avec l’aigle semble la plus courante. Début de cassure de coin perceptible au revers.
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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