bgr_325274 - SICILY - SICILIAN ISLANDS - LIPARI Unité
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 280.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 280.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: c. 320-280 AC.
Mint name / Town : Lipari, Sicile
Metal : copper
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 7,91 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais, bien centré des deux côtés. Portrait avec une usure prononcée; Revers de style fin. Jolie patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de jeune homme à gauche, les cheveux courts.
Reverse
Reverse description : Tête de trident ornée de volutes.
Reverse legend : LIPA/RAIWN
Reverse translation : (de Lipara).
Commentary
Cet exemplaire est énigmatique. Le portrait du droit est décrit tour à tour comme étant Apollon ou Arès (Mars) jeune et imberbe. Le trident est normalement associé à Poséidon (Neptune). Le dieu tutélaire de Lipara est Hephaïstos (Vulcain), généralement barbu.
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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