brm_645837 - ROMAN REPUBLIC - ANONYMOUS Quadrans

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Price : 400.00 €

Type : Quadrans

Date: c. 214-212 AC.

Mint name / Town : Sicile

Metal : copper

Diameter : 29,5 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 16,83 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Très bel exemplaire où l’épi semble hors champ au revers. Beau taureau et très jolie patine de collection ancienne

Catalogue references :

B.- - BMC/RR.139 - CRR.66 - RRC. 42 /2 - RCV.607 /1 (360$) - MIAMG.- - MRR.132 (500€) - SB.168

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête imberbe d’Hercule à droite coiffé de la dépouille du sanglier d’Erymanthe ; derrière trois globules posés verticalement.

Reverse

Reverse legend : ROMA À L’EXERGUE.

Reverse description : Taureau bondissant à droite au-dessus d’un serpent ondulant à droite ; au-dessus, trois globules posés horizontalement surmontés d’un épi de blé posé horizontalement à droite.

Reverse translation : “Roma”, (Rome).

Historical background

ROMAN REPUBLIC - ANONYMOUS

(214-212 BC)

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. The Roman monetary system was reorganized in the middle of the Second Punic War (221-201 BC). The two eponymous consuls of the year are Publius Sulpicius Galba Maximus and Cnæus Fulvius Centumalus Maximus.

ROMAN REPUBLIC - ANONYMOUS Quadrans XF

350.00 €

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