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bgr_824012 - SICILY - SELINUS Litra
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Item sold on our e-shop (2023)
Price : 480.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2023)
Price : 480.00 €
Type : Litra
Date: c 466-415 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sélinonte
Metal : silver
Diameter : 12 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 0,61 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée à l’usure régulière. Jolie représentation du droit. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Nymphe (Eurymedusa) assise à gauche sur un rocher, tenant un serpent de la main droite, levant la main gauche au-dessus de sa tête ; au-dessus, une feuille de céleri (ache).
Reverse
Reverse description : Taureau androcéphale passant à droite ; à l’exergue, un poisson.
Reverse legend : SELINOES.
Historical background
SICILY - SELINUS
(5th century BC)
Selinunte was founded by Megarian settlers. The new coinage begins after 466 BC when Selinunte experienced great economic prosperity. The aggression against Segesta, in 413 BC, provoked the intervention of Athens in Sicily and the disastrous expedition of Alcibiades recounted by Thucydides in the Peloponnesian War. The city emerged victorious from this first test, but could not resist the Carthaginian invasion. The city, besieged, was destroyed in 409 BC and came under Carthaginian domination.
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