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bgr_273347 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Seize litrai

SICILY - SYRACUSE Seize litrai VF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 380.00 €
Type : Seize litrai
Date: c. 250 AC
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,92 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Revers à l’usure régulière. Belle patine de collection ancienne, tachée au revers
Catalogue references :
BMC.  - ANS.87 var. - MIAMG.5039 var. (1250€) - GC.-

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête voilée et diadémée de Philistis à gauche ; derrière, une palme.

Reverse

Reverse description : Niké dans un quadrige galopant à droite, tenant les rênes et le kentron ; sous les chevaux E.
Reverse legend : BASILISSAS// FILISTIDOS.
Reverse translation : (Reine Philistis).

Commentary

Nous n’avons pas relevé d’identité de coin pertinente pour ce type qui est beaucoup plus rare avec le quadrige bondissant.

Historical background

SICILY - SYRACUSE

(274-216 BC)

Hieronymus, King of Syracuse

Around 270 BC, Hieron had married Philistis, a descendant of Dionysius the Elder (405-367 AC.), tyrant of Syracuse. Hieron claimed to have for ancestor Gelon himself (485-478 AC.), founder of the Syracusan power. An officer in Pyrrhus' army, he replaced the king after his departure in 274 BC and, during his very long reign, tried to maintain an uneasy balance between the Romans and the Carthaginians. After the First Punic War ended in 241 BC, Sicily became Roman and Syracuse's days were numbered.

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