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bgr_421436 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Hemilitron

SICILY - SYRACUSE Hemilitron XF
225.00 €(Approx. 243.00$ | 193.50£)
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Type : Hemilitron
Date: c. 405 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 17 mm
Weight : 4,30 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier. Très beau portrait sur un flan légèrement ovale avec une magnifique patine vert olive foncé. Flan légèrement piqué au revers
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES XXXIV, n° 64

Obverse


Obverse description : Tête de nymphe (Aréthuse) à gauche, couronnée de roseau.
Obverse legend : SURA/ (E).

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Astre à seize rais dans un carré creux quadripartite.

Commentary


Même coin de revers que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS n° 398). Oliver Hoover, HGCS. 2/ p. 382, n° 1481 signale que ce type aurait été gravé par Évainète sous Dionysos Ier. Il existe en fait plusieurs variétés dont une sans signature qui semblerait plus ancienne.

Historical background


SICILY - SYRACUSE

(405-367 BC)

Dionysos the Elder

During the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), Syracuse had to face on its territory the formidable Athenian expedition led from 415 BC by Alcibiades and Nicias. After the recall of the former, the Athenian fleet was cast in the port of Syracuse and the Athenians were defeated on the Assinarios in 413 BC, Nicias put to death and the survivors of the Athenian army condemned to hard labor in stone quarries (latomies). In 409, the Carthaginians invaded the island again and seized Selinunte and Himera, then Agrigento in 405 BC. Dionysius of Syracuse seized power and drove back the invaders in 397 BC .-C. The reign of Dionysius the Elder lasted another thirty years and it was Timoleon who succeeded him.

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