bgr_543779 - SICILY - SICULO-PUNIC - ENTELLA Tétradrachme

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Type : Tétradrachme

Date: c. 325 AC.

Mint name / Town : Machanat (Le Camp), Entella

Metal : silver

Diameter : 25 mm

Orientation dies : 9 h.

Weight : 17,14 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier bien centré des deux côtés. Très belle tête de Melqart bien venue à la frappe. Faiblesse de frappe sur le naseau du cheval au revers. Très belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés

Catalogue references :

CPS.316 pl. 5 (A/101 - R/ 260) (1 ex.) (cet ex.) - MIAMG.5523 var. - GC.6436 var. (500£) - HGCS. 2/293

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de la collection Y, (CNS, SNR. 57, 1978, p. 27, n° 316

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête de Melqart (Héraklès) imberbe à droite, coiffée de la léonté nouée sous le cou.

Reverse

Reverse legend : LETTRES PUNIQUES (MHSBM = MACHANAT).

Reverse description : Tête et cou de cheval à gauche ; derrière un palmier.

Commentary

Cet exemplaire est illustré dans l’article de J. K. Jenkins, Coins of Punic Sicily.

Historical background

SICILY - SICULO-PUNIC - ENTELLA

(4th century BC)

City in western Sicily near the rock of Entella, near the territory of Elimi. The city is said to have been founded by the eponymous hero Entello. The city enjoyed a certain importance in the 5th and 4th centuries BC before falling back into anonymity. Populated by Campanian mercenaries at the end of the 5th century BC after having eliminated the population of the city, Entella rallied to the Carthaginians, subsidized by them. The city remained under Carthaginian influence until 368/367 BC when Dionysius the Elder seized the city and turned it against its protectors. The Carthaginians took Entella in 345/344 BC. Timoleon seized the city three years later but had to finally return it in 338 under a treaty with the Carthaginians which determined a line of demarcation from Halykos . Finally, at the end of the Punic Wars, Entella became a tributary of the Romans. The city still played a role during the Civil Wars which opposed Sextus Pompey on one side, Marc Antoine and Octave on the other..