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bgr_889964 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Litra
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Price : 125.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2025)
Price : 125.00 €
Type : Litra
Date: c. 287-278 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicile, Syracuse
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,64 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale, un peu court et centré, légèrement éclaté à trois et neuf heures. Beau portrait au droit. Usure régulière. Patine gris foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée et imberbe de Zeux 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 ; devant A et astre à huit rais.
Reverse legend : SURAKOSION/ A
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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