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bgr_512749 - SICILY - KAMARINA Tetras

SICILY - KAMARINA Tetras AU/XF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 320.00 €
Type : Tetras
Date: c. 420-405 AC.
Mint name / Town : Camarina, Sicile
Metal : copper
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 3,13 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, un peu court sur la légende au revers. Droit de haut relief bien venu à la frappe. Joli revers de frappe un peu faible. Patine marron foncé

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Athéna à gauche, coiffée du casque attique à triple aigrette, timbré d'une aile ; un rameau d’olivier devant le visage ; grènetis circulaire.

Reverse


Reverse description : Chouette debout de face, les ailes déployées, la tête de face, posant la serre droite sur un lézard dans le champ à gauche.
Reverse legend : K-A-M-A.
Reverse translation : (Camarina).

Commentary


Mêmes coins que les exemplaires du musée d’Oxford (n° 1701) et de la collection Morcom (n° 549) ainsi que les huit exemplaires de l’ouvrage de Westermark et Jenkins. G. Buceti a recensé quatorze exemplaires avec des poids compris entre 3,01 g et 3,77 g.

Historical background


SICILY - KAMARINA

(5th - 4th century BC)

Camarina was founded by Syracusan settlers in 599-598 BC. -VS. She often opposed her metropolis before being destroyed for the first time by the tyrant Gelon of Syracuse in 484 BC.. -VS. Its inhabitants were deported to the Sicilian metropolis. The city was refounded in 466-465 BC. -VS. with the help of inhabitants of Géla and Camarinian refugees. Coinage began around 461 BC.. -VS. The city was evacuated in 405 BC. -VS. before the Carthaginian danger. The inhabitants took refuge in Syracuse. Camarina after 405 found itself under Carthaginian influence before falling under the domination of Dionysius the Elder. The city sided with Dion against the son of Dionysius the Elder in 357 BC.. -VS. It passed successively under the control of Tiomoléon then of Agathoklès, tossed between Carthage and Syracuse and found itself victim of the incursions of the mercenaries Mamertines. Favorable to Rome, during the first Punic war, it was occupied by the Carthaginian forces. The city was definitively razed by the Romans during the First Punic War in 258 BC.. -VS. and its enslaved population. Nevertheless, a diminished city survived until the 2nd century AD.. -VS. , shadow of a glorious past.

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