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Type : Litra
Date: c. 400-367 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 8,35 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais à l’usure importante, lisible et identifiable. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock d’Hubert Lanz et de la collection de Laurent F
Obverse
Obverse legend : LÉGENDE RÉTROGRADE.
Obverse description : Tête d’Athéna à gauche, coiffée du casque corinthien lauré.
Obverse legend : SURA
Obverse translation : (Syracuse).
Reverse
Reverse description : Hippocampe à gauche avec les ailes incurvées.
Commentary
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais.
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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