v38_0068 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
Realised price : 1 023.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 1 200.00 €
Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
Realised price : 1 023.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 1 200.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 425-420 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracusa
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 17,48 g.
Rarity : R2
Emission: groupe 5, série 23
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un grand flan large et bien centré des deux côtés. Petite faiblesse de frappe au droit sur le bige. Très bel aurige. Magnifique portrait au revers, bien venu à la frappe. Très jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Bige au pas à droite, conduit par un aurige tenant les rênes et le kentron ; le bige est couronné par Niké volant à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse description : Tête d'Aréthuse à droite, les cheveux relevés et retenus par un saccos orné d’une frise, entourée de quatre dauphins.
Reverse legend : SURAKOS-I-O-N
Reverse translation : (de Syracuse).
Commentary
Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de la collection de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 235). Cassure de coin caractéristique au droit dans les jambes du cheval. Deuxième sigma rétrograde au revers.
Same dies as the example in the American Numismatic Society collection (ANS. 235). Characteristic die break on the obverse in the horse's legs. Second retrograde sigma on the reverse
Same dies as the example in the American Numismatic Society collection (ANS. 235). Characteristic die break on the obverse in the horse's legs. Second retrograde sigma on the reverse
Historical background
SICILY - SYRACUSE
(5th century BC)
Demokratia
After the disappearance of Hieron in 467 and the usurpation of Thrasybulus, democracy was established in 466 BC in Syracuse as in most Sicilian cities. The city then experienced a great period of economic and political expansion radiating throughout the island. Simultaneously, it had to fight against the Etruscans and especially against the Carthaginians who periodically tried to settle or, at least, to control eastern Sicily. During the Peloponnesian War, she had to face on her ground the formidable Athenian expedition led from 415 BC by Alcibiades and Nicias. After the recall of the former, the Athenian fleet was cast in the port of Syracuse, Nicias put to death, and the survivors of the Athenian army condemned to hard labor in the stone quarries. In 409, the Carthaginians invaded the island again and seized Selinunte and Himera, then Agrigento in 405 BC. Dionysius of Syracuse seized power and drove back the invaders.
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