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bgr_488685 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Statère corinthien

SICILY - SYRACUSE Statère corinthien XF/AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 650.00 €
Type : Statère corinthien
Date: c. 344-335 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracusa
Metal : silver
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,61 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Usure plus prononcée au droit sur Pégase. Très belle tête d’Athéna au revers. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de Solidus et de la collection de Laurent F

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Pégase volant à gauche.

Reverse


Reverse description : Tête d'Athéna à droite, coiffée du casque corinthien.
Reverse legend : SURAKOSION.
Reverse translation : (de Syracuse).

Commentary


Semble de même coin de droit que les exemplaires de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS 499) et de la collection Delepierre (690).

Historical background


SICILY - SYRACUSE

(344-317 BC)

Timoleon

After Dion's assassination in 354 BC, a period of instability ensued for ten years. Timoléon, originally from Corinth, landed in Sicily in 344 BC and took control of Syracuse. He restored Greek hegemony in Sicily by driving out the Carthaginians after the Battle of Crimisus in 339 BC. He set up a democratic government which unfortunately did not survive him, Agathokles seizing power from 317 BC. Nevertheless, for about twenty years, Syracuse knew a period of peace which allowed it to restore its finances and to develop an important program of urban construction, accompanied by the return of agricultural prosperity..

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