bgr_489000 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Hexas
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Type : Hexas
Date: c. 295-289 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 13 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,77 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale bien centré. Belle tête d’Apollon. Représentation inhabituelle au revers. Belle patine vert foncé
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection de Laurent F
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Apollon à gauche, les cheveux longs tombant sur la nuque.
Obverse legend : SURAKOSIWN
Obverse translation : (de Syracuse).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Chien assis à gauche, tournant la tête à droite, regardant un serpent ; grènetis circulaire.
Commentary
Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux et est encore parfois attribué à la période de Timoléon.
This type seems rarer than general works suggest and is still sometimes attributed to the period of Timoleon
This type seems rarer than general works suggest and is still sometimes attributed to the period of Timoleon
Historical background
SICILY - SYRACUSE
(317-289 BC)
Agathokles, King of Syracuse
Agathokles had seized power in Syracuse in 317 BC and had taken the title of king in 305 BC. In 310, the tyrant invaded North Africa and attacked Carthage, but he was defeated in 307 and had to retire to Sicily. Peace, signed the following year with the hereditary enemy, consecrates the hegemony of Agathokles over all Sicily.
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