bgr_389498 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Litra
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Price : 100.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 100.00 €
Type : Litra
Date: c. après 212 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,92 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure très importante, identifiable. Épaisse patine verte
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d’Isis, à droite les cheveux longs coiffée du basileion ; grènetis circulaire.
Reverse
Reverse description : Coiffe d’Isis ornée de deux épis.
Reverse legend : SURA-KOSI[WN].
Commentary
Pour ce type, R. Calciati n’a recensé que six exemplaires. Les types égyptiens s’introduisent dans le monnayage égyptien et semblent montrer les liens qui existaient entre la Sicile et l’Égypte débutés dès l’époque d’Agathoklès. Ce type pourrait avoir été frappé au Ier siècle avant J.-C..
Historical background
SICILY - SYRACUSE
(212-210 BC)
Roman occupation
After the death of Hiéron, in 215 before J. - C., his nephew succeeds to him; he was nicknamed "the little Hieron" to differentiate him from his august predecessor. The new monarch allied with Carthage and Hannibal who was then in southern Italy, in Capua. Unfortunately, he will regret this alliance; he was overthrown the following year and the Republic was restored. This gesture by the new rulers was not enough to prevent the Romans from invading Sicily and laying siege to Syracuse. Despite fierce resistance and the assistance of the war machines imagined by Archimedes, in particular the incendiary mirrors, the city falls. Marcellus, the Roman Imperator, tries in vain to save the great scientist who is assassinated by a soldier. Syracuse is given over to plunder. The Romans are masters of all of Sicily in 210 BC.
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