v55_0005 - SICILY - ALASEA (KAINON) Hemilitron, (MB, Æ 23)
MONNAIES 55 (2012)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 280.00 €
Realised price : 320.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 456.00 €
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 280.00 €
Realised price : 320.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 456.00 €
Type : Hemilitron, (MB, Æ 23)
Date: c. 365-360 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicile, Kainon
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,34 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Très jolie patine vert noir épaisse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Griffon bondissant à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse description : Cheval bondissant à gauche, la bride sur le cou ; grènetis circulaire.
Reverse legend : [K]AINO[N]
Reverse translation : (de Kainon).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Semble de mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 1169). La ligne d’exergue fait penser à une massue. Kainon nomisma se traduit aussi par nouvelle monnaie comme le fait remarquer Pierre Strauss.
Heavyweight. Appears to be from the same dies as the American Numismatic Society copy (ANS. 1169). The exergue line is reminiscent of a club. Kainon nomisma also translates as new coin, as Pierre Strauss points out.
Heavyweight. Appears to be from the same dies as the American Numismatic Society copy (ANS. 1169). The exergue line is reminiscent of a club. Kainon nomisma also translates as new coin, as Pierre Strauss points out.
Historical background
SICILY - ALASEA (KAINON)
(4th century BC)
The creation of Kainon (Caena) is certainly linked to the arrival of the Corinthian Timoleon in Sicily in 345 BC. He was considered a liberator by the Sicilians. The presence of Timoléon profoundly modified the coinage. A significant number of cities minted a civic coinage like perhaps Kainon that B. Head considered federal or symmachic.
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