Live auction - bgr_887644 - SICILY - SICULO-PUNIC - LILYBAION Hemilitron
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Live starting : Type : Hemilitron
Date: c. 82-72 AC.
Mint name / Town : Lilybée, Sicile
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 7,01 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Belle tête d’Apollon légèrement stylisée. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Jolie patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Apollon à droite, les cheveux longs tombant sur la nuque ; grènetis circulaire perlé.
Reverse
Reverse legend : L. (APV)./ (DEC.) Q.
Reverse description : Cithare à trois cordes ; grènetis circulaire perlé.
Reverse translation : “Lucius Apuleius Decimus Quæstor”, (Lucius Apuleius Décimus questeur).
Commentary
Ce type n’est représenté qu’en dessin dans l’ouvrage de O. Hoover (HGCS. 2/ 752). De la plus grande rareté.
Historical background
SICILY - SICULO-PUNIC - LILYBAION
(c. 241 BC)
The city was on the eastern side of the island, not far from Motya and Eryx. The conflict between Carthaginians and Greeks and then Romans lasted more than three centuries. Carthage, the great metropolis of Tyrian origin, had been founded in 814 BC and its mythical queen, Dido, after having loved Aeneas, predicted the fierce hatred that Carthage and the new city that was to be founded by the Trojan in exile, Rome. The first major battle took place near Himera in 480 BC between the Greeks of Gelon and the Carthaginians. The western part of the island was often dominated by invaders. The second wave of invasions occurred after the disastrous Athenian operation of Alcibiades in 413 BC. A certain status quo was then established until the First Punic War (268-241 AC.) which saw the loss definitive of Sicily for the Carthaginians.
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