bgr_965794 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Litra
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Type : Litra
Date: c. 287-278 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 8,32 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan court, centré. Joli revers. Usure régulière. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête de Koré Perséphone à gauche, couronnée d’épis, les cheveux longs tombant sur la nuque ; symbole derrière la tête, un pavot ; grènetis circulaire.
Obverse legend : SURAKOSIWN
Obverse translation : (de Syracuse).
Reverse
Reverse description : Bige galopant à droite conduit par un aurige, tenant le kentron (badine) de la main droite et les rênes de la main gauche surmonté d’un astre à huit rais.
Reverse legend : (AR)
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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