v59_0007 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Hémilitron
MONNAIES 59 (2013)
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
Realised price : 349.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 350.00 €
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
Realised price : 349.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 350.00 €
Type : Hémilitron
Date: 343 - 339/338 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse,Sicile
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 13,14 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et épais, bien centré des deux côtés. Très belle tête de Zeus. Joli foudre au revers. Magnifique patine verte
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée et barbue de Zeus Eleutherios à droite.
Obverse legend : ZEUS EL-EU-QERIOS
Obverse translation : (Zeus Eleutherios).
Reverse
Reverse description : Foudre vertical accosté d'un aigle à droite.
Reverse legend : SU-RAK-OSIWN
Reverse translation : (de Syracuse).
Commentary
Pour ce type, nous avons deux types de différents accostant le foudre au revers (grain d’orge ou aigle). Le style de notre exemplaire est particulièrement bon et le foudre, bien venu à la frappe.
Historical background
SICILY - SYRACUSE
(344-317 BC)
Timoleon
After Dion's assassination in 354 BC, a period of instability ensued for ten years. Timoléon, originally from Corinth, landed in Sicily in 344 BC and took control of Syracuse. He restored Greek hegemony in Sicily by driving out the Carthaginians after the Battle of Crimisus in 339 BC. He set up a democratic government which unfortunately did not survive him, Agathokles seizing power from 317 BC. Nevertheless, for about twenty years, Syracuse knew a period of peace which allowed it to restore its finances and to develop an important program of urban construction, accompanied by the return of agricultural prosperity..
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