Live auction - bgr_538611 - SICILY - SICULO-PUNIC - LILYBAION Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 2 500 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 10 September 2019 14:03:14 |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 330-305 AC.
Mint name / Town : Céphaloédium, Sicile
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 16,32 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, légèrement décentré au revers. Joli droit avec une faiblesse de frappe dans la partie supérieure du flan sur l’aurige et la Niké. Très belle tête de Tanit bien venue à la frappe et de très joli style. Patine de collection avec des reflets dorés, légèrement piquée au droit
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire a été acquis en juin 1994 et provient de Conseils Placements
Obverse
Obverse legend : INSCRIPTION PUNIQUE À L'EXERGUE (RSMLQRT).
Obverse description : Quadrige galopant à droite, conduit par un aurige, tenant les rênes et le kentron, couronné par une Niké volant à gauche ; double ligne d'exergue.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Tête féminine (Tanit) à droite, les cheveux tirés en arrière avec couronne d'épis, boucle d'oreille et collier, entourée de trois dauphins.
Commentary
Poids léger. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire reproduit dans le Jenkins, Coins of Punic Sicily, p. 64, n° 37, pl. 17 (A/ 14 - R/ 28) provenant du Cabinet numismatique de Bruxelles. Pour ce type seize exemplaires sont recensés.
Historical background
SICILY - SICULO-PUNIC - LILYBAION
(350-300 BC)
GK Jenkins, in the Revue Suisse de Numismatique, proposed the attribution to Lilybée for the Carthaginian series from Sicily to the legend of the camp (Machanat). The city was on the west coast 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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