v36_0064 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Unité de bronze, (PB, Æ 21)
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
Realised price : 195.00 €
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
Realised price : 195.00 €
Type : Unité de bronze, (PB, Æ 21)
Date: c. après 212 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracusa
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 6,50 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait de Zeus. Joli revers de style fin. Belle patine vert olive profond
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Astarte du 5 mars 1999, n° 113
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Zeus à droite ; grènetis circulaire.
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle, les ailes ouvertes debout à droite sur un foudre ; grènetis circulaire.
Reverse legend : SURAK-OS-IWN.
Commentary
Poids léger. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. n° 1057, pl. 34).
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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