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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Sicily| > |Syracuse| > GB66247
Syracuse, Sicily, Hiketas II, 287 - 278 B.C.
|Syracuse|, |Syracuse,| |Sicily,| |Hiketas| |II,| |287| |-| |278| |B.C.|, Hicetas was the tyrant of Syracuse for about nine years. The only recorded events during his rule are his victory over Phintias, tyrant of Agrigentum, and his defeat to the Carthaginians at the river Terias. He was expelled from Syracuse by Thynion shortly before Pyrrhus arrived in Sicily.
GB66247. Bronze litra, Calciati II p. 313, 168 R1; SNG Cop 796; SNG ANS 803 ff., HGC 2 1449 (S), gVF, corrosion, Syracuse mint, weight 8.179g, maximum diameter 23.0mm, die axis 135o, 287 - 278 B.C.; obverse ΔIOΣ EΛΛANIOY, laureate head of young Zeus Hellanios right; reverse ΣYPAKOΣIΩN, eagle standing left on thunderbolt, wings open, A over star left; SOLD











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