Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction IX 22 March 2015
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Sicily, Thermai AR Tetradrachm. Circa 350 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron and reins, driving fast quadriga to right; altar in exergue / Head of Demeter to left, wearing grain wreath, triple pendant earring and necklace; around, four dolphins swimming, prow behind. Jenkins, Punic 4; London NC 1913, p. 226, 3; Lloyd 1039. 17.35g, 25mm, 8h.
Very Fine. Very Rare.
Ex Gorny & Mosch 191, 11 October 2010, lot 1111.
Thermai was founded in the wake of the utter destruction of Himera and the slaughter of the majority of its citizens by the Carthaginian general Hannibal Mago, when the survivors of this devastation relocated to the nearby hot springs whose original discovery lay in myth associated with the wanderings of the hero Herakles (Diodorus Siculus IV. 23, v. 3). Though the site had long been inhabited, it was now swelled by the displaced Himerans, and the newly enlarged town was thereafter considered to be the successor to the old city of Himera, and in time appears to have become a sizeable settlement, though now subject to Carthaginian rule.
Very Fine. Very Rare.
Ex Gorny & Mosch 191, 11 October 2010, lot 1111.
Thermai was founded in the wake of the utter destruction of Himera and the slaughter of the majority of its citizens by the Carthaginian general Hannibal Mago, when the survivors of this devastation relocated to the nearby hot springs whose original discovery lay in myth associated with the wanderings of the hero Herakles (Diodorus Siculus IV. 23, v. 3). Though the site had long been inhabited, it was now swelled by the displaced Himerans, and the newly enlarged town was thereafter considered to be the successor to the old city of Himera, and in time appears to have become a sizeable settlement, though now subject to Carthaginian rule.