bgr_950782 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Hemilitron
70.00 €(Approx. 81.90$ | 60.20£)
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Type : Hemilitron
Date: c. 405 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 2,42 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan mince, légèrement décentré au revers. Joli portrait. Usure régulière. Patine verte
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Aréthuse à gauche, avec boucles d'oreille, la chevelure relevée, retenue par l’ampyx et le sphendoné ; derrière la tête, un petit dauphin.
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.
Light weight. This type of bronze is contemporary with the decadrachms of Kimon and Evainetus of Syracuse.
Light weight. This type of bronze is contemporary with the decadrachms of Kimon and Evainetus of Syracuse.
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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