bgr_275242 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Deux-et-demi litrai
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 750.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 750.00 €
Type : Deux-et-demi litrai
Date: c. 214-212 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : silver
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 2,23 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, bien centré des deux côtés. Très belle tête élégante d’Apollon. Joli revers de style fin. Belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Rauch d’août 1993
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Apollon à gauche, les cheveux longs tombant sur la nuque.
Reverse
Reverse description : Figure féminine marchant à gauche (Tyché) drapé flottant au vent, le voile au-dessus de la tête, tenant une urne de la main droite tendue et une palme de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : SURAKOSIOI/ K
Reverse translation : (des Syracusains).
Commentary
Ce type semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. C’est la première fois que nous le proposons à la vente. Au revers, nous retrouvons le petit K rencontré sur la pièce de quatre litrai de Hiéron II. C’est pourquoi ce type est parfois attribué à ce règne.
This type seems much rarer than general works suggest. This is the first time we have offered it for sale. On the reverse, we find the small K found on the four-liter coin of Hiero II. This is why this type is sometimes attributed to this reign.
This type seems much rarer than general works suggest. This is the first time we have offered it for sale. On the reverse, we find the small K found on the four-liter coin of Hiero II. This is why this type is sometimes attributed to this reign.
Historical background
SICILY - SYRACUSE
(214-212 BC)
Fifth Republic
After the death of Hiéron, in 215 before J. - C., his nephew succeeds to him; he was nicknamed "the little Hieron" to differentiate him from his august predecessor. The new monarch allied with Carthage and Hannibal who was then in southern Italy, in Capua. Unfortunately, he will regret this alliance; he was overthrown the following year and the Republic was restored. This gesture by the new rulers was not enough to prevent the Romans from invading Sicily and laying siege to Syracuse. Despite fierce resistance and the assistance of the war machines imagined by Archimedes, in particular the incendiary mirrors, the city falls. Marcellus, the Roman Imperator, tries in vain to save the great scientist who is assassinated by a soldier. Syracuse is given over to plunder. The Romans are masters of all of Sicily in 210 BC.
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