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bgr_242605 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Hemilitron

SICILY - SYRACUSE Hemilitron AU
125.00 €(Approx. 135.00$ | 107.50£)
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Type : Hemilitron
Date: c. 405 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,65 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait. Joli revers de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe sur un flan légèrement concave. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES 38, n° 70

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.
Reverse translation : (Syracuse).

Commentary


Poids léger.

Historical background


SICILY - SYRACUSE

(405-367 BC)

Dionysos the Elder

During the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), Syracuse had to face on its territory 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 and the Athenians were defeated on the Assinarios in 413 BC, Nicias put to death and the survivors of the Athenian army condemned to hard labor in stone quarries (latomies). 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 in 397 BC .-C. The reign of Dionysius the Elder lasted another thirty years and it was Timoleon who succeeded him.

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