bgr_488616 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Hemilitron
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Price : 150.00 €
Type : Hemilitron
Date: c. 405 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 17 mm
Weight : 4,91 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier. Belle tête de nymphe au droit. Jolie patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock d’Hubert Lanz et de la collection Laurent F
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête de nymphe (Aréthuse) à gauche, couronnée de roseau.
Obverse legend : [SURA]/ (E)
Obverse translation : (Syracuse/ Evainète ?).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Astre à seize rais dans un carré creux quadripartite.
Commentary
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.
Oliver Hoover, HGCS. 2/ p. 382, no. 1481 reports that this type was engraved by Evainetus under Dionysus I. There are in fact several varieties, including one without a signature that appears to be older.
Oliver Hoover, HGCS. 2/ p. 382, no. 1481 reports that this type was engraved by Evainetus under Dionysus I. There are in fact several varieties, including one without a signature that appears to be older.
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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