Live auction - bgr_403651 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 5 500 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 27 September 2016 14:02:59 |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 415-410 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracusa
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 16,65 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré avec les penons de coulée du flan bien visibles. Frappe un peu molle au droit. Très joli revers expressif. Recouvert d’une fine patine de collection ancienne
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de Savoca et de la collection Laurent F
Obverse
Obverse description : Quadrige galopant à droite, conduit par un aurige tenant les rênes et le kentron, couronné par une petite Niké volant à gauche ; au milieu, une petite tablette inscrite ; à l’exergue, deux petits dauphins affrontés .
Obverse legend : EUE.
Obverse translation : (Euthydemos).
Reverse
Reverse description : Tête d'Aréthuse à gauche, les cheveux relevés en arrière, ornés d’un épi de blé, retenus par un ampyx et un sphendoné ; collier et boucles d’oreille.
Reverse legend : SURAKOSION// EUME/NOU.
Reverse translation : (de Syracuse/ Eumène).
Commentary
Tétradrachme signé Evainète et Eumènes. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 272) et que celui de la collection Gulbenkian (n° 278). Cet exemplaire, une œuvre majeure de l’art grec classique est réalisée par deux artistes qui maîtrisent parfaitement l’art de la gravure monétaire : Evainète et Eumènes.
Historical background
SICILY - SYRACUSE
(5th century BC)
Demokratia
After the disappearance of Hieron in 467 and the usurpation of Thrasybulus, democracy was established in 466 BC in Syracuse as in most Sicilian cities. The city then experienced a great period of economic and political expansion radiating throughout the island. Simultaneously, it had to fight against the Etruscans and especially against the Carthaginians who periodically tried to settle or, at least, to control eastern Sicily. During the Peloponnesian War, she had to face on her ground the formidable Athenian expedition led from 415 BC by Alcibiades and Nicias. After the recall of the former, the Athenian fleet was cast in the port of Syracuse, Nicias put to death, and the survivors of the Athenian army condemned to hard labor in the stone quarries. In 409, the Carthaginians invaded the island again and seized Selinunte and Himera, then Agrigento in 405 BC. Dionysius of Syracuse seized power and drove back the invaders.
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