v49_0086 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Hemilitron, (PB, Æ 18)
MONNAIES 49 (2011)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
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Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Hemilitron, (PB, Æ 18)
Date: c. 400 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicile, Syracuse
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 4,02 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, irrégulier et légèrement échancré à 1 heures. Très beau portrait d’Aréthuse. Joli revers de frappe un peu molle. Belle patine vert olive
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock du Crédit de la Bourse (1993)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Aréthuse à gauche, diadémée avec boucles d'oreille et collier ; derrière la tête, deux feuilles de laurier ; grènetis circulaire.
Reverse
Reverse description : Dauphin à droite au-dessus d'un pétoncle ; grènetis circulaire.
Reverse legend : SU-RA
Reverse translation : (Syracuse).
Commentary
Poids lourd.
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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