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Live auction - bgr_431978 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Seize litrai

SICILY - SYRACUSE Seize litrai MS
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Estimate : 2 500 €
Price : 3 100 €
Maximum bid : 3 100 €
End of the sale : 13 June 2017 14:03:41
bidders : 3 bidders
Type : Seize litrai
Date: c. 240-216 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 13,58 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage sur un flan large parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Portrait de toute beauté de la reine divinisée. Revers fantastique où tous les détails de la composition sont visibles. Magnifique patine de médaillier avec des reflets mordorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock d’Alain Weil et de la collection JMB et de MONNAIES 57, n° 44

Obverse


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

Reverse


Reverse description : Niké dans un quadrige galopant à droite, tenant les rênes et le kentron ; au-dessus, un croissant et aux pieds des chevaux, à droite, un épi de blé.
Reverse legend : BASILISSAS / FILISTIDOS / KIS.
Reverse translation : (de la reine Philistis).

Commentary


Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. L’exemplaire de la Live Auction bgr_393801 s’est vendu 2100€ (+ les frais).

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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