v38_0053 - SICILY - SICULO-PUNIC - LILYBAION Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 950.00 €
Estimate : 1 800.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 950.00 €
Estimate : 1 800.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 340 AC.
Mint name / Town : Machanat (Le Camp), Lilybée
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,93 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, bien centré des deux côtés, complet. Portrait magnifique, les dauphins bouchés et début de cassure de coin visible devant le nez. Revers de haut relief et bien venu à la frappe. Jolie patine avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
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 : LETTRES PUNIQUES (MACHANAT).
Reverse description : Tête et cou de cheval à gauche ; derrière un palmier.
Commentary
Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du British Museum et de l’American Numismatic Society et que l’exemplaire du musée de Cambridge (SNG n° 1482). Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du Cabinet des médailles de la BnF (coll. de Luynes n° 1460). Cassure de coin perceptible au niveau du dauphin placé devant la bouche, formant une larme avec une verrue sur la pointe du nez.
Same dies as the British Museum and American Numismatic Society copy and the Cambridge Museum copy (SNG no. 1482). Same dies as the copy in the Cabinet des médailles of the BnF (Luynes collection no. 1460). Die break visible at the dolphin placed in front of the mouth, forming a teardrop with a wart on the tip of the nose
Same dies as the British Museum and American Numismatic Society copy and the Cambridge Museum copy (SNG no. 1482). Same dies as the copy in the Cabinet des médailles of the BnF (Luynes collection no. 1460). Die break visible at the dolphin placed in front of the mouth, forming a teardrop with a wart on the tip of the nose
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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