bgr_349655 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Litra
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 175.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 175.00 €
Type : Litra
Date: c. après 212 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 10,24 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, ovale et bombé, bien centré des deux côtés. Belle tête de Zeus. Joli revers de style fin légèrement décentré. Belle patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Zeus à gauche ; grènetis circulaire perlé.
Reverse
Reverse description : Niké dans un bige galopant à droite, tenant le kentron de la main droite et les rênes de la main gauche ; un croissant au-dessus de Niké.
Reverse legend : SURAKOSIWN.
Commentary
O. Hoover place la fabrication de ce type entre la fin du IIe siècle et le début du 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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