bgr_637934 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Hemilitron
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Price : 380.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2021)
Price : 380.00 €
Type : Hemilitron
Date: c. 287-278 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,84 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré, court sur la légende de droit. Très belle tête de Zeus. Revers de style fin, bien venu à la frappe. Jolie patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée et imberbe de Zeus Hellanios à gauche, les cheveux courts, un foudre vertical derrière la tête ; grènetis circulaire.
Obverse legend : [DIOS ELLANIOU]
Obverse translation : (Dieu des Grecs).
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes ouvertes ; dans le champ à gauche, une lettre.
Reverse legend : SURAK/OSIWN
Reverse translation : (des Syracusains).
Commentary
Sur notre exemplaire, nous avons un petit foudre derrière la tête. Ce type avec la tête à gauche semble plus rare.
On our example, we have a little lightning behind the head. This guy with his head on the left seems rarer
On our example, we have a little lightning behind the head. This guy with his head on the left seems rarer
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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