bgr_232534 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Hemilitron
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Hemilitron
Date: c. 340 AC
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : bronze or copper
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Weight : 16,42 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et épais, légèrement décentré sur les légendes avec les traces de coulée du flan visibles. Usure régulière sur le portrait. Joli revers. Patine noire, légèrement granuleuse au droit
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée et barbue de Zeus Eleutherios à droite.
Obverse legend : [IEUS ELEU]Q-ERIOS.
Obverse translation : (Zeus Eleuthère).
Reverse
Reverse description : Foudre vertical accosté d'un grain d’orge à droite.
Reverse legend : [SU-RAR]-OSIWN].
Reverse translation : (de Syracuse).
Commentary
Semble de mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 472, pl. 16).
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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