bgr_812766 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Litra
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Type : Litra
Date: c. après 212 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,92 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire centré. Usure importante mais régulière. Monnaie bien identifiable. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Koré (Perséphone) à gauche, couronnée d’épis, les cheveux longs tombant sur la nuque.
Reverse
Reverse description : Déméter voilée et drapée debout à gauche , tenant une torche allumée de la main droite et un long sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : SURAK-OSIWN
Reverse translation : (de Syracuse).
Commentary
Pour O. Hoover, ce type serait fabriqué au Ier siècle avant J.-C. Droit et revers rappellent le côté agraire de la Sicile qui fut le premier grenier de Rome avant l’Afrique et l’Égypte.
Historical background
SICILY - SYRACUSE
(212-210 BC)
Roman occupation
After the death of Hiéron, in 215 before J. - C., his nephew succeeds to him; he was nicknamed "the little Hieron" to differentiate him from his august predecessor. The new monarch allied with Carthage and Hannibal who was then in southern Italy, in Capua. Unfortunately, he will regret this alliance; he was overthrown the following year and the Republic was restored. This gesture by the new rulers was not enough to prevent the Romans from invading Sicily and laying siege to Syracuse. Despite fierce resistance and the assistance of the war machines imagined by Archimedes, in particular the incendiary mirrors, the city falls. Marcellus, the Roman Imperator, tries in vain to save the great scientist who is assassinated by a soldier. Syracuse is given over to plunder. The Romans are masters of all of Sicily in 210 BC.
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