Live auction - bgr_1003543 - SICILY - SICILIAN ISLANDS - LIPARI Tetras
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Live starting : Type : Tetras
Date: c. 440-420 AC.
Mint name / Town : Lipari, Sicile
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 25,98 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan très large, centré des deux côtés. Joli portrait ainsi qu’un revers agréable. Fine usure régulière. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête barbue d’Héphaïstos à droite, coiffée du pileus ; grènetis circulaire.
Reverse
Reverse description : Neuf lettres grecques en plein champ ; au centre trois globules posés en triangle ; grènetis circulaire.
Reverse legend : LIPARAION
Reverse translation : (de Lipara).
Commentary
Série lourde la plus ancienne basée sur un litra d’environ 90 grammes. Pour ce type G. Buceti a recensé quatorze exemplaires dont les poids sont compris entre 19,91 g et 28,03 g. Notre exemplaire est très proche de celui de la collection David Freedman, Triton V, n° 283.
Historical background
SICILY - SICILIAN ISLANDS - LIPARI
(4th - 3rd century BC)
Lipari is part of a series of seven islands of volcanic origin off Sicily 40 kilometers away which includes among others Stromboli. Identified with Aeolus, god of the winds, it is one of the Aeolian Islands. A legend has it that its islands are the lair of EphaIstos (Vulcan) god of the underworld. It would also have been the place where the Cyclops lived. Colonized by the Greeks during the 5th century BC to protect Sicily from Carthaginian invasions. Lipari was finally captured by the Carthaginians in 288 BC. The Romans seized it during the First Punic War in 251 BC. The islands remained disputed until the end of the Second Punic War (218 -201 BC). The island enjoyed some prosperity under Augustus.
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