bgr_645118 - SICILY - SICULO-PUNIC - ENTELLA Tétradrachme
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Price : 4 200.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 320/315 - 305/300 AC.
Mint name / Town : Entella, Sicile
Metal : silver
Diameter : 29,5 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 17,21 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, très large et irrégulier parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec le grènetis visible au revers. Tête de toute beauté au droit, légèrement figée dans l’expression du visage. Revers de haut relief avec une paille de métal près de la bouche du cheval. Jolie patine de médaillier avec des reflets mordorés
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Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Tanit (Perséphone ou Aréthuse) à gauche, la coiffure ornée d'épis avec un collier de perles et des boucles d'oreilles, entourée de quatre dauphins.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LETTRE PUNIQUE (MACHANAT).
Reverse description : Tête et cou de cheval à gauche ; derrière un palmier.
Commentary
C’est le seul type avec la tête de cheval à droite. Jenkins avait recensé seulement dix exemplaires avec cette combinaison de coin dont l’exemplaire de la collection de Hirsch à Bruxelles (837). Le coin de droit a été utilisé pour plusieurs autres numéros (Jenkins 177 à 180).
This is the only type with the horse's head on the right. Jenkins had recorded only ten examples with this die combination, including the example in the Hirsch collection in Brussels (837). The right die was used for several other issues (Jenkins 177 to 180).
This is the only type with the horse's head on the right. Jenkins had recorded only ten examples with this die combination, including the example in the Hirsch collection in Brussels (837). The right die was used for several other issues (Jenkins 177 to 180).
Historical background
SICILY - SICULO-PUNIC - ENTELLA
(4th century BC)
City in western Sicily near the rock of Entella, near the territory of Elimi. The city is said to have been founded by the eponymous hero Entello. The city enjoyed a certain importance in the 5th and 4th centuries BC before falling back into anonymity. Populated by Campanian mercenaries at the end of the 5th century BC after having eliminated the population of the city, Entella rallied to the Carthaginians, subsidized by them. The city remained under Carthaginian influence until 368/367 BC when Dionysius the Elder seized the city and turned it against its protectors. The Carthaginians took Entella in 345/344 BC. Timoleon seized the city three years later but had to finally return it in 338 under a treaty with the Carthaginians which determined a line of demarcation from Halykos . Finally, at the end of the Punic Wars, Entella became a tributary of the Romans. The city still played a role during the Civil Wars which opposed Sextus Pompey on one side, Marc Antoine and Octave on the other..
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