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E-auction 161-98131 - bgr_392695 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Litra, (MB, Æ 23)

SICILY - SYRACUSE Litra, (MB, Æ 23) VG/VF
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Estimate : 50 €
Price : 52 €
Maximum bid : 1 012 €
End of the sale : 16 May 2016 14:01:30
bidders : 6 bidders
Type : Litra, (MB, Æ 23)
Date: c. 287-278 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 6,60 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et court sur les légendes, très usé au droit. Joli revers. Patine vert foncé

Obverse


Obverse description : Tête laurée et imberbe de Zeux Hellanios à droite ; trophée derrière la tête.
Obverse legend : DIOS ELLANIOU.
Obverse translation : (Dieu des Grecs).

Reverse


Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes ouvertes ; devant A et astre à huit rais.
Reverse legend : SURAKOSION/ A.

Commentary


Variété avec trophée derrière la tête non signalée dans les principaux ouvrages de référence, mais qui existe avec la tête à gauche (ANS. 812). Cet exemplaire s’est vendu 380€.

Historical background


SICILY - SYRACUSE

(287-278 BC)

Hiketas

Hiketas, strategist, succeeded Agathokles and became tyrant of Syracuse. He defeated Phintias, tyrant of Agrigento, at Hyblaion, but was in turn defeated by the Carthaginians at Terias and expelled from Thonion in 279 BC before being driven out of Syracuse and replaced by Pyrrhus (Diodorus of Sicily , 21, 16, 6; 18.1; 22, 2, 1; 7, 2-3); [KP. 1145, lines 17-49].

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