E-auction 630-625353 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Hemilitron
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Type : Hemilitron
Date: c. 287-278 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 9,71 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale, centré. Joli revers. Usure régulière. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée et imberbe de Zeus Hellanios à gauche, les cheveux longs tombant sur la nuque ; grènetis circulaire ; derrière la tête, Athéna.
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 étoile.
Reverse legend : SURAK/OSIWN
Reverse translation : (des Syracusains).
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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