brm_728215 - ROMAN REPUBLIC - ANONYMOUS Quadrans
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Price : 350.00 €
Type : Quadrans
Date: c. 214-212 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicile
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 11,21 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire centré présentant une fine usure régulière. Joli revers. Patine marron-vert foncé
Catalogue references :
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).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Dans son inventaire Haeberlin avait relevé dix-neuf exemplaires pour ce type et Italo Vecchi dans sa vente 3 du13 septembre 1996, n° 76-80 “A collection of Roman Republican Strcuk bronze Coinage” en proposait cinq exemplaires. C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente qui semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
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.
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