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Live auction - bgr_340277 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Huit litrai

SICILY - SYRACUSE Huit litrai MS
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Estimate : 1 500 €
Price : 1 900 €
Maximum bid : 1 900 €
End of the sale : 03 December 2014 14:05:32
bidders : 2 bidders
Type : Huit litrai
Date: c. 214-212 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : silver
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 2 h.
Weight : 6,83 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan très large et ovale. Portrait d’Athéna magnifique au droit. Très joli revers de haut relief. Magnifique patine de médaillier avec des reflets mordorés et bleutés irisés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d’Athéna à gauche, coiffée du casque corinthien à aigrette orné d’un griffon, avec l’égide autour du cou, les cheveux liés retombant sur la nuque.

Reverse


Reverse description : Grand foudre ailé.
Reverse legend : SURAKOSION/ UA - S

Commentary


Pour ce type, F. de Callataÿ a relevé ainsi que pour la pièce de douze litrai qui est frappée avec les mêmes coins de droit, un total de quatorze coins de droits pour 182 exemplaires avec vingt-quatre coins de revers et un indice charactéroscopique de treize ce qui est très élevé. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire reproduit dans l’ouvrage de Montenegro (MIAMG. p. 881, n° 5075.

Historical background


SICILY - SYRACUSE

(214-212 BC)

Fifth Republic

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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