Roma Numismatics Ltd
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Sicily, the Tyrrhenoi Æ Litra. Circa 354/3-336 BC. Helmeted head of Athena to right; TYPPH around / Athena standing facing, head to left, holding spear in right hand and resting hand on grounded shield to right; M in right field. Castrizio series I, 1; Campana 1; CNS 1; HGC 2, 1657. 28.06g, 31mm, 1h.
Extremely Fine; exceptionally well detailed for the issue. Very Rare.
From the Italo Vecchi Collection;
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 47, 28 June 2018, lot 175.
In 384 Dionysios I of Syracuse raided the south coast of Etruria and returned to Sicily with a band of Etruscan soldiers who had surrendered. He probably settled them in the vicinity of the Sileroi, near present-day Alimena. Here these Etruscan mercenaries struck coins naming themselves as the Tyrrhenoi - the Greek exonym for the Etruscans (their own name for themselves being Rasenna). This mercenary mint ceased to mint coinage overstruck on Syracusan drachmae when the Tyrrhenoi were wiped out by Timoleon in the 330s BC.
Extremely Fine; exceptionally well detailed for the issue. Very Rare.
From the Italo Vecchi Collection;
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 47, 28 June 2018, lot 175.
In 384 Dionysios I of Syracuse raided the south coast of Etruria and returned to Sicily with a band of Etruscan soldiers who had surrendered. He probably settled them in the vicinity of the Sileroi, near present-day Alimena. Here these Etruscan mercenaries struck coins naming themselves as the Tyrrhenoi - the Greek exonym for the Etruscans (their own name for themselves being Rasenna). This mercenary mint ceased to mint coinage overstruck on Syracusan drachmae when the Tyrrhenoi were wiped out by Timoleon in the 330s BC.