bgr_907045 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Octolitrai

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Type : Octolitrai

Date: c. 214-212 AC.

Mint name / Town : Sicile, Syracuse

Metal : silver

Diameter : 22,5 mm

Orientation dies : 9 h.

Weight : 6,79 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Superbe exemplaire sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Magnifique revers, finement détaillé. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés

Catalogue references :

ANS.1044 - MIAMG.- - GC.1000 var. - BMC.639 - RQEMH.53 - Nanteuil402 pl. XXV

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête d’Athéna à gauche, coiffée du casque corinthien à aigrette, avec l’égide autour du cou, les cheveux liés retombant sur la nuque.

Obverse legend : (AG).

Reverse

Reverse description : Foudre ailé.

Reverse legend : SURAKOSIWN// SW.

Reverse translation : (de Syracuse).

Historical background

SICILY - SYRACUSE

(214-212 BC)

Fifth Republic

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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