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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Sicily| > |Other Sicily| > GB69013
Leontini, Sicily, 2nd Century B.C.
|Other| |Sicily|, |Leontini,| |Sicily,| |2nd| |Century| |B.C.|, In 214 B.C., Roman forces lead by Marcus Claudius Marcellus stormed Leontini, which had been subject to Syracuse. Marcellus executed 2000 Roman deserters who were hiding in the city and then moved to lay siege to Syracuse. The siege would last for two years, thwarted in part by the military machines created by the famous inventor Archimedes.
GB69013. Bronze AE 22, Calciati III p. 85, 21; SNG Cop 362, SNG Munchen 572, HGC 2 715 (R1); SNG Morcom -, aVF, green patina, uneven strike with weak areas, Leontini mint, weight 8.810g, maximum diameter 22.5mm, die axis 45o, Roman rule, 2nd century B.C.; obverse laureate bust of Artemis (or Apollo) right, quiver behind shoulder; reverse ΛEONTIN-ΩN (clockwise from upper right), Demeter standing left, grain ears upward in extended right hand, long long torch vertical behind in left, plough at feet left; rare; SOLD




  







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