bgr_1153470 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Litra
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Type : Litra
Date: c. 380 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : copper
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 5,75 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Usure importante mais régulière. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête d’Athéna à gauche, coiffée du casque corinthien lauré.
Obverse legend : SURA
Obverse translation : (Syracuse).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Hippocampe ailé à gauche avec les ailes incurvées ; bride sur le cou flottant au vent ; grènetis circulaire.
Commentary
Poids léger. La chronologie de cette émission a bougé. Elle a été abaissée. Au droit, le casque peut être lauré ou pas et au revers l’hippocampe est parfois avec une bride sur le cou. Le type avec le casque non couronné et l’hippocampe sans bride semble plus ancien.
Lightweight. The chronology of this issue has shifted. It has been lowered. On the obverse, the helmet may or may not be laureate, and on the reverse, the seahorse is sometimes with a neck strap. The type with the uncrowned helmet and the strapless seahorse appears older.
Lightweight. The chronology of this issue has shifted. It has been lowered. On the obverse, the helmet may or may not be laureate, and on the reverse, the seahorse is sometimes with a neck strap. The type with the uncrowned helmet and the strapless seahorse appears 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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