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Live auction - bgr_829195 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Seize litrai

SICILY - SYRACUSE Seize litrai AU
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2023/06/06 14:00:00
bgr_829195
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Type : Seize litrai
Date: c. 240-216 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,51 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire, idéalement centré. Très joli revers finement détaillé. Beau portrait au droit. Patine grise de collection avec de légers reflets dorés
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête voilée et diadémée de Philistis à gauche ; derrière, une couronne ; une étoile dans le champ à droite.

Reverse


Reverse description : Niké dans un quadrige au pas à droite, tenant les rênes ; une étoile au-dessus.
Reverse legend : BASILISSAS// FILISTIDOS/ K.
Reverse translation : (Reine Philistis).

Historical background


SICILY - SYRACUSE

(274-216 BC)

Hiero II, king of Syracuse

Around 270 BC, Hiero had married Philistis, a descendant of Dionysius (405-367 AC.), Tyrant of Syracuse. Hiero claimed to have ancestor Gelo himself (485-478 AC.), Founder of the Syracusan power. Officer of the army of Pyrrhus, king after he replaced his departure in 274 BC, and during his long reign, tried to maintain a difficult balance between the Romans and the Carthaginians. After the end of the first Punic War in 241 BC, Sicily became a Roman and Syracuse days were numbered.

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