bgr_637936 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Hemilitron
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Price : 480.00 €
Type : Hemilitron
Date: c. 287-278 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 9,12 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais, court sur la légende de droit. Belle tête de Koré. Joli revers de style fin. Belle patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête de Koré Perséphone à droite, couronnée d’épis, les cheveux longs tombant sur la nuque ; symbole derrière la tête, une torche ; grènetis circulaire.
Obverse legend : [SURAKOSIWN]
Obverse translation : (de Syracuse).
Reverse
Reverse description : Bige galopant à droite conduit par un aurige, tenant le kentron (badine) de la main droite et les rênes de la main gauche surmonté d’un astre à huit rais.
Reverse legend : (GU)
Commentary
Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. C’est la première fois que nous présentons un exemplaire de ce type.
This type seems rarer than general works suggest. This is the first time that we present a example of this type
This type seems rarer than general works suggest. This is the first time that we present a example of this type
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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