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bgr_488698 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Drachme

SICILY - SYRACUSE Drachme VF
150.00 €(Approx. 162.00$ | 129.00£)
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Type : Drachme
Date: c. 343-332 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,34 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré à l’usure importante, mais bien identifiable. Patine marron foncé
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock d’Hubert Lanz et de la collection de Laurent F

Obverse


Obverse description : Tête barbue et laurée de Zeus à gauche ; grènetis circulaire.
Obverse legend : [ZEUS EL]-EUQERIOS.
Obverse translation : (Zeus Eleutherios).

Reverse


Reverse description : Cheval libre bondissant à gauche ; grènetis circulaire.
Reverse legend : [SURA-K//OSIWN].
Reverse translation : (de Syracuse).

Commentary


Ce type est parfois décrit aussi comme un hémilitron, mais aussi parfois comme une litra ou un dilitron. Il semble bien que nous ayons affaire à une drachme.

Historical background


SICILY - SYRACUSE

(344-317 BC)

Timoleon

After Dion's assassination in 354 BC, a period of instability ensued for ten years. Timoléon, originally from Corinth, landed in Sicily in 344 BC and took control of Syracuse. He restored Greek hegemony in Sicily by driving out the Carthaginians after the Battle of Crimisus in 339 BC. He set up a democratic government which unfortunately did not survive him, Agathokles seizing power from 317 BC. Nevertheless, for about twenty years, Syracuse knew a period of peace which allowed it to restore its finances and to develop an important program of urban construction, accompanied by the return of agricultural prosperity..

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