bgr_239580 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Hemilitron
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Price : 135.00 €
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Price : 135.00 €
Type : Hemilitron
Date: c. 287-278 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,52 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan à l’usure importante, mais lisible et identifiable. Beau portrait. Très joli revers. Patine vert foncé granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée et imberbe de Zeus Hellanios à droite.
Obverse legend : [DIOS ELLANIOU].
Obverse translation : (Dieu des Grecs).
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes ouvertes ; dans le champ à gauche, un astre à huit rais.
Reverse legend : SURAK-OSIWN.
Reverse translation : (de Syracuse).
Commentary
Poids très léger.
Historical background
SICILY - SYRACUSE
(287-278 BC)
Hiketas
Hiketas, strategist, succeeded Agathokles and became tyrant of Syracuse. He defeated Phintias, tyrant of Agrigento, at Hyblaion, but was in turn defeated by the Carthaginians at Terias and expelled from Thonion in 279 BC before being driven out of Syracuse and replaced by Pyrrhus (Diodorus of Sicily , 21, 16, 6; 18.1; 22, 2, 1; 7, 2-3); [KP. 1145, lines 17-49].
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