v53_0020 - SICILY - HIMERA Hemidrachme
MONNAIES 53 (2012)
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Hemidrachme
Date: c. 465-415 AC.
Mint name / Town : Himère
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 1,96 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement centré des deux côtés, identifiable et historiquement important. Droit servi par une patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Cavalier nu à gauche sur une chèvre se cabrant à gauche, soufflant dans un conque de la main droite et un caducée de la main gauche.
Reverse
Reverse legend : [IN].
Reverse description : Niké (Victoire) volant à gauche, les ailes déployées, tenant un aphlaston (aplustre) de la main droite et sa robe de la main gauche.
Commentary
Semble de même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 170).
Appears to be the same obverse die as the American Numismatic Society copy (ANS. 170)
Appears to be the same obverse die as the American Numismatic Society copy (ANS. 170)
Historical background
SICILY - HIMERA
(5th century BC)
Himère, a Chalcidian colony, was founded by inhabitants of Zancle in 648 BC. The city was taken by Théron, tyrant of Agrigento in 482 BC, and its population deported. After the end of the "akragantine" domination in 472 BC, the city underwent significant economic development until its final destruction by the Carthaginian forces in 408 BC. Its population, which had counted up to 'to 40,000 inhabitants, then took refuge in Therma.
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