bgr_272706 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Litra
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 125.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 125.00 €
Type : Litra
Date: c. 390 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicile, Syracuse
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18 mm
Weight : 6,22 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait d’Athéna au droit. Revers inhabituel, de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe. Jolie patine vert olive foncé, écaillée en bord de flan
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 avec la bride descendant du cou.
Commentary
Poids léger.
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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