bgr_1104999 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Seize litrai
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Type : Seize litrai
Date: c. 240-216 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 2 h.
Weight : 13,24 g.
Rarity : R2
Slab
NGC :
Coments on the condition:
Superbe monnaie, centrée des deux côtés. Très beau revers, finement détaillé. Joli portrait de Philistis, bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise
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Predigree :
Exemplaire sous coque NGC Ch XF (Strike 5/5, surface 3/5, brushed)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête voilée et diadémée de Philistis à gauche ; derrière, une couronne.
Reverse
Reverse description : Niké dans un quadrige au pas à droite, tenant les rênes.
Reverse legend : BASILISSAS// FILISTIDOS
Reverse translation : (Reine Philistis).
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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