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v51_0044 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Octolitrai

SICILY - SYRACUSE Octolitrai MS
MONNAIES 51 (2011)
Starting price : 1 200.00 €
Estimate : 2 200.00 €
Realised price : 1 450.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 1 450.00 €
Type : Octolitrai
Date: c. 214-212 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicile, Syracuse
Metal : silver
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,82 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage sur un flan large et ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Portrait de toute beauté, de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe. Revers magnifique de haut relief, finement détaillé. Patine de médaillier de toute beauté avec des reflets mordorés
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d’Athéna à gauche, coiffée du casque corinthien à aigrette, avec l’égide autour du cou, les cheveux liés retombant sur la nuque.
Obverse legend : (AG).

Reverse


Reverse description : Foudre ailé.
Reverse legend : SURAKOSIWN// SW.
Reverse translation : (de Syracuse).

Commentary


Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. n° 1044, pl. 33) et que l’exemplaire de la collection H. de Nanteuil, n° 402, pl. XXV. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de la collection Pozzi (P. n° 663, pl. XXII, 12 litrai).

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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