bgr_421436 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Hemilitron
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Type : Hemilitron
Date: c. 405 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 17 mm
Weight : 4,30 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier. Très beau portrait sur un flan légèrement ovale avec une magnifique patine vert olive foncé. Flan légèrement piqué au revers
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES XXXIV, n° 64
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête de nymphe (Aréthuse) à gauche, couronnée de roseau.
Obverse legend : SURA/ (E)
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Astre à seize rais dans un carré creux quadripartite.
Commentary
Même coin de revers que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS n° 398). Oliver Hoover, HGCS. 2/ p. 382, n° 1481 signale que ce type aurait été gravé par Évainète sous Dionysos Ier. Il existe en fait plusieurs variétés dont une sans signature qui semblerait plus ancienne.
Same reverse die as the American Numismatic Society copy (ANS no. 398). Oliver Hoover, HGCS. 2/ p. 382, no. 1481 indicates that this type would have been engraved by Evainète under Dionysus I. There are in fact several varieties including one without signature which seems older
Same reverse die as the American Numismatic Society copy (ANS no. 398). Oliver Hoover, HGCS. 2/ p. 382, no. 1481 indicates that this type would have been engraved by Evainète under Dionysus I. There are in fact several varieties including one without signature which seems older
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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