bgr_487774 - SICILY - MESSANA Litra

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Price : 175.00 €

Type : Litra

Date: c. 310-288 AC.

Mint name / Town : Messine, Sicile

Metal : copper

Diameter : 21 mm

Orientation dies : 3 h.

Weight : 7,52 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier, bien centré. Très belle tête de nymphe au droit. Joli revers de style fin. Belle patine marron foncé

Catalogue references :

HGCS. 2/834 (R1 ) (500$) - MIAMG.4452 (R1) (425€) - BMC.82 - GC.1136 - ANS.394 - -

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête diadémée de la nymphe Pelorias à gauche, couverte de roseaux avec collier et boucles d’oreilles ; devant deux petits dauphins ; grènetis circulaire.

Obverse legend : PELORIAS.

Obverse translation : (Peloprias).

Reverse

Reverse description : Pheraimon nu casqué marchant à gauche, tenant de la main droite une javeline transversale et un bouclier de la main gauche.

Reverse legend : MESSANI[WN].

Reverse translation : (de Messine).

Commentary

Très beau visage faisant penser à Aréthuse, accosté de dauphins devant le visage.

Historical background

SICILY - MESSANA

(4th century BC)

Messina was founded by the Chalcidians around 725 BC under the name of Zancle, sickle, a name that comes from the shape of the port of the city. The Samians, fleeing the Persian yoke, seized the city in 493 BC and kept it for four years until Anaxilas, tyrant of Rhegion, chased them away and renamed the city, Messina. Anaxilas and his son were overthrown in 461 BC and Democracy established. Messina was destroyed by the Carthaginians in 396 BC. Messina, after regaining some prosperity during the second half of the 4th century BC, was once again ravaged by an invader, this time- here, Oscan mercenaries who destroyed the city and massacred its inhabitants in 288 BC. The new masters, the Mamertines, maintained their autonomy under the control of the Romans until the 1st century BC. Coinage ceased in 38 BC.

SICILY - MESSANA Litra AU

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