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E-auction 83-41874 - bgr_332928 - SICILY - MESSANA Pentonkion

SICILY - MESSANA Pentonkion XF
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Estimate : 150 €
Price : 92 €
Maximum bid : 100 €
End of the sale : 17 November 2014 15:02:30
bidders : 8 bidders
Type : Pentonkion
Date: c. 208-200 AC.
Mint name / Town : Messine, Sicile
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 8,57 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier. Beau portrait d’Arès. Frappe un peu faible au revers sur la légende. Jolie patine verte, légèrement granuleuse

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Arès à gauche ; derrière un petit casque ; grènetis circulaire perlé.

Reverse


Reverse description : Cavalier nu debout à gauche, la chlamyde tombant sur l’épaule et enroulé sur le bras gauche, tenant son cheval par la bride de la main droite et une javeline transversale de la main gauche ; grènetis circulaire.
Reverse legend : MA-MER-TINWN/ P.
Reverse translation : (des Mamertins/ 5).

Commentary


Pour ce type. G. Buceti a relevé 121 exemplaires avec des poids compris entre 8,97 g et 14 ,11 g. Les auteurs du Mamertini ont isolé cinq variétés différentes pour un total de 153 exemplaires dont trois sans symbole placé derrière la tête au droit (casque ou glaive. Notre variété se caractérise par une césure de légende de revers.

Historical background


SICILY - MESSANA

(288-38 BC)

The Mamertini

Messina was founded by the Chalcidians around 725 BC. -VS. under the name of Zancle (sickle), a name that comes from the shape of the port of the city. The Samiens, fleeing the Persian yoke, seized the city in 493 BC.. -VS. and kept it for four years, until Anaxilas, tyrant of Rhegion, drove them out and renamed the city Messina.. Anaxilas and his son were overthrown in 461 BC. -VS. and established democracy. It was destroyed by the Carthaginians in 396 BC.. -VS. The city was rebuilt at the instigation of Dionysius the Elder. After the death of Dionysius, the city took part in the rivalries which saw Dion and Dionysius the Younger confront each other.. A tyrant favorable to the A Carthaginians took power and held it until the arrival of Timoleon in Sicily. Messina, after regaining some prosperity during the second half of the 4th century BC. -VS. , was still the object of the lusts of Agathokles from 315 BC. -VS. After the death of the king, the city was once again ravaged by a new invader, this time Oscan mercenaries who destroyed the city and massacred its inhabitants in 288 BC.. -VS. The new masters, the Mamertines, maintained their autonomy under the control of the Romans until the 1st century BC.. -VS. Pyrrhus seized the city on arriving in Sicily, but could not control the Mamertines who, after a brief return to Italy, returned to Sicily and tried to carve out a vast territory before being crushed at the battle of Langanos by Hieron II in 269-265 BC. -VS. The Carthaginians saved the Mamertines and Messina. But the latter allied with the Romans and it was the siege of Messina by the Carthaginians and the Syracusans which was at the origin of the first Punic war (264-241 BC).. -VS. ). Messina kept its status as an allied city at the end of the conflict.. It prospered during the Roman period thanks to its geographical and strategic location of its port, a link between the continent and the island.. During the civil wars (49-31 BC. -VS. ), Messina supported Caesar against Pompey then Sextus Pompey against Octave and Marc Antoine until the defeat of Nauloque in 36 BC. -VS.

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