v19_0033 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Statère corinthien
MONNAIES 19 (2004)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 329.00 €
Number of bids : 31
Maximum bid : 373.00 €
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 329.00 €
Number of bids : 31
Maximum bid : 373.00 €
Type : Statère corinthien
Date: c. 340 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicile, Syracuse
Metal : silver
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 8,55 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de très haut relief pour ce type. Finement patine. Très joli revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Athéna à droite, coiffée du casque corinthien.
Reverse
Reverse description : Pégase volant à gauche ; au-dessous, un caducée.
Commentary
Sur cet exemplaire, droit et revers sont inversés par rapport aux types normaux pour Corinthe et ses colonies. Semble de mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du British Museum (BMC n° 2).
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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