v49_0084 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Hemilitron, (PB, Æ 16)
MONNAIES 49 (2011)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Hemilitron, (PB, Æ 16)
Date: c. 405 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicile, Syracuse
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 2 h.
Weight : 3,37 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale et irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait d’Aréthuse. Joli revers de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe. Très belle patine vert olive foncé épaisse
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock Claude Silberstein (1989)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Aréthuse à gauche, avec boucles d'oreille .
Reverse
Reverse description : Roue à quatre rayons avec moyeu central ; légende dans les deux cantons supérieurs et deux dauphins affrontés dans les deux cantons inférieurs.
Reverse legend : SU-RA
Reverse translation : (Syracuse).
Commentary
Poids léger. Ce type de bronze est contemporain des décadrachmes de Kimon et d’Évainète de Syracuse. Sur certains exemplaires, nous avons un dauphin derrière la tête d’Aréthuse.
Lightweight. This type of bronze is contemporary with the decadrachms of Kimon and Evainetus of Syracuse. On some examples, we have a dolphin behind the head of Arethusa.
Lightweight. This type of bronze is contemporary with the decadrachms of Kimon and Evainetus of Syracuse. On some examples, we have a dolphin behind the head of Arethusa.
Historical background
SICILY - SYRACUSE
(405-367 BC)
Dionysos the Elder
During the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), Syracuse had to face on its territory the formidable Athenian expedition led from 415 BC by Alcibiades and Nicias. After the recall of the former, the Athenian fleet was cast in the port of Syracuse and the Athenians were defeated on the Assinarios in 413 BC, Nicias put to death and the survivors of the Athenian army condemned to hard labor in stone quarries (latomies). In 409, the Carthaginians invaded the island again and seized Selinunte and Himera, then Agrigento in 405 BC. Dionysius of Syracuse seized power and drove back the invaders in 397 BC .-C. The reign of Dionysius the Elder lasted another thirty years and it was Timoleon who succeeded him.
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