bgr_1040870 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Hemilitron ou bronze à l’aigle
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Type : Hemilitron ou bronze à l’aigle
Date: c. 287-278 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracusa
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,85 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan court, centré des deux côtés. Joli portrait ainsi qu’un aigle bien venu à la frappe. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée et imberbe de Zeus Hellanios à gauche.
Obverse legend : DIOS ELLANIOU
Obverse translation : (Dieu des Grecs).
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes ouvertes.
Reverse legend : SURAKOSIWN
Reverse translation : (de Syracuse).
Historical background
SICILY - SYRACUSE
(287-278 BC)
Hiketas
Hiketas, strategist, succeeded Agathokles and became tyrant of Syracuse. He defeated Phintias, tyrant of Agrigento, at Hyblaion, but was in turn defeated by the Carthaginians at Terias and expelled from Thonion in 279 BC before being driven out of Syracuse and replaced by Pyrrhus (Diodorus of Sicily , 21, 16, 6; 18.1; 22, 2, 1; 7, 2-3); [KP. 1145, lines 17-49].
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