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v49_0063 - SICILY - KENTURIPAI Hemilitron, (MB, Æ 25)
MONNAIES 49 (2011)
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 380.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 380.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Hemilitron, (MB, Æ 25)
Date: c. 241 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicile, Centuripe
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 10,18 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait d’Apollon, bien venu à la frappe malgré une usure régulière. Revers de style fin. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la maison Platt (1995)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d'Apollon à droite, les cheveux longs tombant sur la nuque ; grènetis circulaire.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LÉGENDE PLACÉE VERTICALEMENT.
Reverse description : Lyre de face ; de chaque côté, trois globules disposés verticalement ; grènetis circulaire.
Reverse legend : KENTO/RIPINWN
Reverse translation : (de Centuripe).
Commentary
Poids très lourd. Série lourde. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de la collection Maurice Laffaille (p. 48, n° 165). Les poids pour cette série sont variables entre 7,00 g et plus de 9,00 g. Néanmoins, le poids de notre exemplaire se rapproche de celui du dekonkion (10 onkiai).
Very heavy weight. Heavy series. Same dies as the example in the Maurice Laffaille collection (p. 48, no. 165). The weights for this series vary between 7.00 g and more than 9.00 g. However, the weight of our example is close to that of the dekonkion (10 onkiai)
Very heavy weight. Heavy series. Same dies as the example in the Maurice Laffaille collection (p. 48, no. 165). The weights for this series vary between 7.00 g and more than 9.00 g. However, the weight of our example is close to that of the dekonkion (10 onkiai)
Historical background
SICILY - KENTURIPAI
(3rd century BC)
Centuripe (Kentoripa or Centuripæ), in the center of Sicily, is placed in the valley of Symæthus at the foot of Etna. The city seems to have been founded in the 8th century BC. Shared between the zones of Carthaginian and Syracusan influence, it finally fell under the dependence of the latter during the 4th century BC. First Punic War, Centuripe submitted in 263 BC. It experienced an intense period of economic and artistic development under Roman domination.
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