v57_0043 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Hemilitron
MONNAIES 57 (2013)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Hemilitron
Date: c. 287-278 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,71 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, épais et irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés, mais court sur les légendes. Portrait de Zeus juvénile à l’usure régulière. Très joli revers bien venu à la frappe. Belle patine vert olive
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée et imberbe de Zeus Hellanios à droite.
Obverse legend : [DIOS ELLANIOU]
Obverse translation : (Dieu des Grecs).
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes ouvertes.
Reverse legend : [SURAK]-OSIWN
Reverse translation : (de Syracuse).
Commentary
Sur cet exemplaire, au revers nous ne semblons déceler aucun symbole ou lettre.
On this example, on the reverse we do not seem to detect any symbol or letter
On this example, on the reverse we do not seem to detect any symbol or letter
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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