v38_0056 - SICILY - SICULO-PUNIC - LILYBAION Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
Realised price : 857.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 903.00 €
Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
Realised price : 857.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 903.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 325 AC.
Mint name / Town : Machanat (Le Camp), Lilybée
Metal : silver
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 17,00 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et complet, parfaitement centré des deux côtés ce qui n’est pas évident. Très beau portrait de Melqart, bien venu à la frappe. Revers de style fin et de haut relief. Magnifique patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets mordorés. Conserve une partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Melqart (Héraklès) imberbe à droite, coiffée de la léonté nouée sous le cou.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LETTRES PUNIQUES (MHSBM = MACHANAT).
Reverse description : Tête et cou de cheval à gauche ; derrière un palmier.
Commentary
Petit défaut caractéristique près de l’œil (taie). Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du Musée de Berlin (CPS. 290B, pl. 3). Le coin de revers semble nouveau avec deux éléments caractéristiques, un début de cassure de coin sur l’œil du cheval et un petit défaut visible à la base du cou du cheval entre celui-ci et la base du palmier.
Small characteristic defect near the eye (cover). Same obverse die as the copy in the Berlin Museum (CPS. 290B, pl. 3). The reverse die appears new with two characteristic features, the beginning of a die break on the horse's eye and a small defect visible at the base of the horse's neck between it and the base of the palm tree
Small characteristic defect near the eye (cover). Same obverse die as the copy in the Berlin Museum (CPS. 290B, pl. 3). The reverse die appears new with two characteristic features, the beginning of a die break on the horse's eye and a small defect visible at the base of the horse's neck between it and the base of the palm tree
Historical background
SICILY - SICULO-PUNIC - LILYBAION
(350-300 BC)
GK Jenkins, in the Revue Suisse de Numismatique, proposed the attribution to Lilybée for the Carthaginian series from Sicily to the legend of the camp (Machanat). The city was on the west coast of the island, not far from Motya and Eryx. The conflict between Carthaginians and Greeks and then Romans lasted more than three centuries. Carthage, the great metropolis of Tyrian origin, had been founded in 814 BC and its mythical queen, Dido, after having loved Aeneas, predicted the fierce hatred that Carthage and the new city that was to be founded by the Trojan in exile, Rome. The first major battle took place near Himera in 480 BC between the Greeks of Gelon and the Carthaginians. The western part of the island was often dominated by invaders. The second wave of invasions occurred after the disastrous Athenian operation of Alcibiades in 413 BC. A certain status quo was then established until the First Punic War (268-241 AC.) which saw the loss definitive of Sicily for the Carthaginians.
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