v47_0037 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Drachme d’or, décadrachme ou 60 litrai (FAUX)
MONNAIES 47 (2011)
Starting price : 2 500.00 €
Estimate : 4 500.00 €
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Starting price : 2 500.00 €
Estimate : 4 500.00 €
Withdrawn
Type : Drachme d’or, décadrachme ou 60 litrai (FAUX)
Date: c. 317-310 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicile, Syracuse
Metal : gold
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,13 g.
Rarity : R2
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection A. A. S.
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Apollon à gauche ; un épi d’orge derrière la tête.
Reverse
Reverse description : Bige galopant à droite, conduit par un aurige, tenant les rênes et le kentron ; au-dessous, un triskèle.
Reverse legend : SUR-[AK-OS-I]-WN
Reverse translation : (de Syracuse).
Commentary
(FAUX
Semble des mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 553, pl. 19).
(FALSE Appears to be from the same dies as the American Numismatic Society specimen (ANS. 553, pl. 19)
Semble des mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 553, pl. 19).
(FALSE Appears to be from the same dies as the American Numismatic Society specimen (ANS. 553, pl. 19)
Historical background
SICILY - SYRACUSE
(317-289 BC)
Agathokles, tyranus of Syracuse
Agathokles had seized power in Syracuse in 317 BC and assumed the title of king in 305 BC. In 310 the tyrant invaded North Africa and attacked Carthage, but he was defeated in 307 and must retire to Sicily. Peace, signed the following year with the hereditary enemy, consecrates the hegemony of Agathokles over all Sicily.
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