v53_0018 - SICILY - KATANE Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 53 (2012)
Starting price : 1 100.00 €
Estimate : 2 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 1 100.00 €
Estimate : 2 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 450-430 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicile, Catane
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 17,18 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire frappé sur un flan épais relativement bien centré au droit, parfaitement centré au revers. Joli droit à l’usure régulière. Portrait bien particulier au revers, frappé avec un coin légèrement bouché. Jolie patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection A. S. et de MONNAIES 45, n° 22
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Bige au pas à droite, conduit par un aurige tenant les rênes et le kentron ; ligne d'exergue.
Reverse
Reverse description : Tête d'Apollon à droite, coiffée d'une couronne de lierre, les cheveux longs.
Reverse legend : KATANAI-O-N
Reverse translation : (des Catanéens).
Commentary
Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 1245, pl. 35). Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 1244). Même coin de revers que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 1246). Au droit, nous constatons comme sur l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 1245) le coin qui commence à se boucher sur le poitrail du cheval du bige. Portrait très particulier frappé avec un coin légèrement bouché, laissant néanmoins apparaître tous les détails de la chevelure .
Same dies as the American Numismatic Society copy (ANS. 1245, pl. 35). Same obverse die as the American Numismatic Society copy (ANS. 1244). Same reverse die as the American Numismatic Society copy (ANS. 1246). On the obverse, we see, as on the American Numismatic Society copy (ANS. 1245), the die that is beginning to fill in on the chest of the horse of the bige. Very particular portrait struck with a slightly filled die, nevertheless allowing all the details of the hair to appear
Same dies as the American Numismatic Society copy (ANS. 1245, pl. 35). Same obverse die as the American Numismatic Society copy (ANS. 1244). Same reverse die as the American Numismatic Society copy (ANS. 1246). On the obverse, we see, as on the American Numismatic Society copy (ANS. 1245), the die that is beginning to fill in on the chest of the horse of the bige. Very particular portrait struck with a slightly filled die, nevertheless allowing all the details of the hair to appear
Historical background
SICILY - KATANE
(5th - 4th century BC)
Catania was founded by settlers from Naxos, a Chalcidian colony, in 729 BC.. -VS. It was placed halfway between its metropolis, Naxos, and Leontini on the western coast of Sicily.. Hieron the Elder captured the city in 476 BC. -VS. and renamed it Ætna. Syracusan invaders were driven out in 461 BC. -VS. and the city regained its independence and its name. During the Peloponnesian War, Catania chooses Athens against Syracuse in 413 BC. -VS. It was temporarily saved by the Carthaginian invasion of 409 BC.. -VS. Dionysius of Syracuse captured Catania in 404 BC. -VS. and enslaved the people. The Catania region then came under Carthaginian influence. Several tyrants favorable to Syracuse followed one another before opposing Timoleon who crushed the Greek and Carthaginian allies under the walls of the city. In 278, the Catanese welcomed Pyrrhus. During the first Punic war, the city was one of the first conquered by the Romans under the leadership of the consul, Valerius Maximus Messala. During the First Servile War (135-132 BC. -VS. ) the slaves took over the city. Catania was one of the main ports of Sextus Pompey from 43 BC. -VS. Pompey's fleet was beaten by Agrippa's at the battle of Nauloque in 36 BC.. -VS. forcing Pompey to abandon Sicily.
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