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v43_0029 - SICILY - SICULO-PUNIC - LILYBAION Tétradrachme

SICILY - SICULO-PUNIC - LILYBAION Tétradrachme AU
MONNAIES 43 (2010)
Starting price : 600.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
Realised price : 623.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 623.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 325 AC.
Mint name / Town : Machanat (Le Camp), Lilybée
Metal : silver
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 17,14 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais, bien centré des deux côtés, un peu court au revers. Beau portrait avec une usure superficielle sur la léonté. Cheval à la crinière ramassée en forme de goutte et aux naseaux volontaires. Exemplaire recouvert d’une jolie patine épaisse avec des reflets mordorés
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES 38, n° 59

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 sur la joue à côté de la léonté. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de la vente Egger 45, n° 839. Seulement deux exemplaires recensés dont le nôtre.

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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