bgr_489066 - SICILY - HIMERA Litra
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Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 225.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 225.00 €
Type : Litra
Date: c. 465-415 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicile, Himère
Metal : silver
Diameter : 11 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 0,54 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit ovale et irrégulier à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement identifiable. Patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection de Laurent F
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Protomé de monstre à tête humaine barbue avec un avant et une corne de bouc, une crinière de lion et des ailes repliées du coq en arrière à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Cavalier nu à gauche sur une chèvre se cabrant , tenant la corne de l’animal de la main droite, la main gauche levée.
Reverse legend : [IME-R-AIO-N]
Commentary
Poids léger. Ce monnayage semble être un des plus rares de la ville d’Himère, est anachronique au cœur du Ve siècle avant J.-C.
Lightweight. This coinage appears to be one of the rarest in the city of Himera, and is anachronistic in the heart of the 5th century BC.
Lightweight. This coinage appears to be one of the rarest in the city of Himera, and is anachronistic in the heart of the 5th century BC.
Historical background
SICILY - HIMERA
(5th century BC)
Himère, a Chalcidian colony, was founded by inhabitants of Zancle in 648 BC. The city was taken by Théron, tyrant of Agrigento in 482 BC, and its population deported. After the end of the "akragantine" domination in 472 BC, the city underwent significant economic development until its final destruction by the Carthaginian forces in 408 BC. Its population, which had counted up to 'to 40,000 inhabitants, then took refuge in Therma.
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