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bgr_262430 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Litra

SICILY - SYRACUSE Litra AU/XF
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Price : 225.00 €
Type : Litra
Date: c. 214-212 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22,00 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 11,39 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et épais, bien centré des deux côtés, légèrement échancré à 7 heures au revers. Merveilleux portrait d’Apollon, bien venu à la frappe et de haut relief. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Très jolie patine vert épaisse
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock du Crédit de la Bourse (1993), de la collection Maurice Laffaille, n° 254 et de la vente Monnaies et Médailles 76, 1991, n° 255 (300 FS) et de la collection du Dr.Charles Haas

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Apollon à gauche, les cheveux longs tombant sur la nuque.

Reverse


Reverse description : Les Dioscures (Castor et Pollux) à cheval galopant à droite, coiffé d’un bonnet (pileus), nu, le manteau flottant au vent, levant la main droite.
Reverse legend : AT// SURAKOSIWN.
Reverse translation : (de Syracuse).

Commentary


Cet exemplaire est reproduit dans l’ouvrage de Pierre Strauss, Collection Maurice Laffaille. Monnaies grecques en bronze, p. 67, n° 255. Il est aussi photographié dans l’ouvrage de Montenegro, p. 914, n° 5325.

Historical background


SICILY - SYRACUSE

(214-212 BC)

Fifth Republic

After the death of Hiéron, in 215 before J. - C., his nephew succeeds to him; he was nicknamed "the little Hieron" to differentiate him from his august predecessor. The new monarch allied with Carthage and Hannibal who was then in southern Italy, in Capua. Unfortunately, he will regret this alliance; he was overthrown the following year and the Republic was restored. This gesture by the new rulers was not enough to prevent the Romans from invading Sicily and laying siege to Syracuse. Despite fierce resistance and the assistance of the war machines imagined by Archimedes, in particular the incendiary mirrors, the city falls. Marcellus, the Roman Imperator, tries in vain to save the great scientist who is assassinated by a soldier. Syracuse is given over to plunder. The Romans are masters of all of Sicily in 210 BC.

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