bgr_812701 - SICILY - SOLUS Tetras
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Type : Tetras
Date: c. 300-241 AC.
Mint name / Town : Solus, Sicile
Metal : copper
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 2,97 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie légèrement décentrée. Usure importante. Revers agréable. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Poséidon à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Guerrier marchant à gauche tenant une lance et un bouclier.
Reverse legend : SOLON/TINWN
Reverse translation : (De Solus).
Historical background
SICILY - SOLUS
(5th - 4th century BC)
Solus was a city of Carthaginian origin located about sixteen kilometers east of Palermo (Panorme). It then passed in the 4th century under Syracusan influence, definitively from Agathokles before falling under the control of the Romans during the first Punic war. It was then a tributary city.
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