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v57_0034 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Hemilitron

SICILY - SYRACUSE Hemilitron AU
AU
MONNAIES 57 (2013)
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Hemilitron
Date: c. 415-405 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 14,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,45 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais, bien centré avec un beau portrait. Revers de haut relief de style bien venu à la frappe. Patine superficielle verte avec de minuscules concrétions vertes et rouges.
Catalogue references :
ANS.404  - MIAMG.5095 (325€) - GC.1186  - BMC.243  - Bœhringer- pl. 39/37 - HGCS. 2/1479
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES XXVI, n° 14

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Aréthuse à gauche, avec boucles d'oreille .

Reverse

Reverse description : Roue à quatre rayons avec moyeu central ; légende dans les deux cantons supérieurs et deux dauphins affrontés dans les deux cantons inférieurs.
Reverse legend : SU-RA.

Commentary

Ce type de bronze est contemporain des décadrachmes de Kimon et d’Évainète de Syracuse. Sur certains exemplaires, nous avons un dauphin derrière la tête d’Aréthuse, ici non visible. Certains exemplaires sont parfois signés (Eumenos, Eukleidas, Kimon ou Phrygillos).

Historical background

SICILY - SYRACUSE

(5th century BC)

Demokratia

After the disappearance of Hieron in 467 and the usurpation of Thrasybulus, democracy was established in 466 BC in Syracuse as in most Sicilian cities. The city then experienced a great period of economic and political expansion radiating throughout the island. Simultaneously, it had to fight against the Etruscans and especially against the Carthaginians who periodically tried to settle or, at least, to control eastern Sicily. During the Peloponnesian War, she had to face on her ground the formidable Athenian expedition led from 415 BC by Alcibiades and Nicias. After the recall of the former, the Athenian fleet was cast in the port of Syracuse, Nicias put to death, and the survivors of the Athenian army condemned to hard labor in the stone quarries. In 409, the Carthaginians invaded the island again and seized Selinunte and Himera, then Agrigento in 405 BC. Dionysius of Syracuse seized power and drove back the invaders.

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