bgr_322402 - SICILY - SICILIAN ISLANDS - LIPARI Hemilitron
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Price : 750.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 750.00 €
Type : Hemilitron
Date: c. 412-405 AC.
Mint name / Town : Lipari, Sicile
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 14,85 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan très épais, ovale, légèrement décentré au droit. Belle représentation du droit avec un canthare disproportionnée. Joli revers. Belle patine marron foncé
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock d’Hubert Lanz (Münich) et de la collection (YMSR)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Héphaïstos nu assis à droite sur siège, tenant un marteau de la main droite et un canthare de la main gauche ; grènetis circulaire perlé.
Reverse
Reverse description : Dauphin nageant à gauche ; grènetis circulaire perlé.
Reverse legend : LIPARAION
Reverse translation : (de Lipara).
Commentary
Série lourde. Pour cette série, G. Buceti a recensé cinq exemplaires regroupant au moins deux variétés donc celle avec les six globules placés sous le dauphin. De la plus grande rareté. Seulement trois exemplaires recensés par R. Calciati. Nous n’avons aucune marque de valeur pour ce type. C’est par analogie avec la seconde variété qui présente six globules dans le champ que ce type est considéré comme un hemilitron. Nous pourrions autrement avoir affaire à une litra.
Heavy series. For this series, G. Buceti identified five specimens grouping at least two varieties, including the one with the six globules placed under the dolphin. Extremely rare. Only three specimens identified by R. Calciati. We have no value mark for this type. It is by analogy with the second variety, which has six globules in the field, that this type is considered a hemilitron. Otherwise, we could be dealing with a litra
Heavy series. For this series, G. Buceti identified five specimens grouping at least two varieties, including the one with the six globules placed under the dolphin. Extremely rare. Only three specimens identified by R. Calciati. We have no value mark for this type. It is by analogy with the second variety, which has six globules in the field, that this type is considered a hemilitron. Otherwise, we could be dealing with a litra
Historical background
SICILY - SICILIAN ISLANDS - LIPARI
(4th - 3rd century BC)
Lipari is part of a series of seven islands of volcanic origin off Sicily 40 kilometers away which includes among others Stromboli. Identified with Aeolus, god of the winds, it is one of the Aeolian Islands. A legend has it that its islands are the lair of EphaIstos (Vulcan) god of the underworld. It would also have been the place where the Cyclops lived. Colonized by the Greeks during the 5th century BC to protect Sicily from Carthaginian invasions. Lipari was finally captured by the Carthaginians in 288 BC. The Romans seized it during the First Punic War in 251 BC. The islands remained disputed until the end of the Second Punic War (218 -201 BC). The island enjoyed some prosperity under Augustus.
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