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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Sicily| > |Gela| > GS86587
Gela, Sicily, c. 465 - 450 B.C.
|Gela|, |Gela,| |Sicily,| |c.| |465| |-| |450| |B.C.|, Gela, named after the river Gela, was founded around 688 BC by colonists from Rhodos (Rhodes) and Crete, 45 years after the founding of Syracuse. In 424 B.C., the Congress of Gela established a platform of "Sicily for the Sicilians" and formed a league that pushed back the Athenian attempt to conquer the island.
GS86587. Silver litra, Jenkins Gela 335, 1 (= SNG Mün 291); HGC 2 373 (S); SNG ANS 54 ff. var.; SNG Cop 272 ff. var.; BMC Sicily p. 68, 28 ff. var. (var. all leg. arrang.), Choice aEF, well centered, light rose toning, bumps and scratches, porosity/corrosion, Gela mint, weight 0.737g, maximum diameter 12.2mm, die axis 45o, c. 465 - 450 B.C.; obverse bridled horse right, laurel wreath above left, dotted exergue line, bridle hanging down from mouth to right in shape of a crescent, dot border; reverse forepart of man-faced bull (river god) swimming right, dotted truncation, CE-ΛA (CE above, ΛA downward on right), no border, all within shallow round incuse; a beautiful little gem seen in-hand at actual size; SOLD










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