v09_0025 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Seize litrai
MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 426.86 €
Estimate : 686.02 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 426.86 €
Estimate : 686.02 €
unsold lot
Type : Seize litrai
Date: c. 250 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicile, Syracuse
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,37 g.
Rarity : R1
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Usure régulière. Beau portrait pour le type. A été légèrement nettoyé / Frappé au revers avec un coin usé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête voilée et diadémée de Philistis à gauche ; derrière, une couronne.
Reverse
Reverse description : Niké dans un quadrige galopant à droite, tenant les rênes et le kentron ; lettre dans le champ.
Reverse legend : BASILISSAS// FILISTIDOS/ F
Commentary
Poids léger.
Historical background
SICILY - SYRACUSE
(274-216 BC)
Hieronymus, King of Syracuse
Around 270 BC, Hieron had married Philistis, a descendant of Dionysius the Elder (405-367 AC.), tyrant of Syracuse. Hieron claimed to have for ancestor Gelon himself (485-478 AC.), founder of the Syracusan power. An officer in Pyrrhus' army, he replaced the king after his departure in 274 BC and, during his very long reign, tried to maintain an uneasy balance between the Romans and the Carthaginians. After the First Punic War ended in 241 BC, Sicily became Roman and Syracuse's days were numbered.
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