DEINOMENID TYRANNY / SYRACUSE, SICILY 480-470 BC / Silver Obol Coin +COA GGcoins

Description

Syracuse,    Sicily
Deinomenid   Tyranny  period-- King  Hieron I
Silver AR Obol / Litra - Circa 480 - 470 BC.
Well detailed coin; Size: 9.mm  / Weight:
0.6gm
Obverse:
Head of
Arethusa
deity facing right
...
Reverse:
Wheel
with
4 spokes
, no lettering...
Ref:
Boehringer 264
Personalized COA included
The Coin:
An
fantastic example of a rare Silver B.C.
era coin
,
dated
480 BC
it saw little use before it found a safe place
to wait out the centuries.
Always Authentic,  I have never knowingly sold a copy or reproduction!
As grading
is subjective please Judge the coin photos to determine this for yourself.
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History: of coin
Arethusa
, in Greek mythology, a nymph who gave her name to a spring in Elis and to another
on the island of Ortygia, near Syracuse..
The river god Alpheus fell in love with Arethusa, who was in the retinue of Artemis. Arethusa fled
to Ortygia, where she was changed into a spring. Alpheus, however, made his way beneath the
sea and united his waters with those of the spring. According to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book V,
Arethusa, while bathing in the Alpheus River, was seen and pursued by the river god in human form.
Artemis changed her into a spring that, flowing underground, emerged at Ortygia.
In an earlier form of the legend, it was Artemis, not Arethusa, who was the object of the river
god’s affections and who escaped by smearing her face with mire, so that he failed to recognize her.
The story probably originated from the fact that Artemis Alpheiaia was worshiped in both Elis and
Ortygia and also that the Alpheus in its upper part runs underground.
King Hieron I
, (died 467/466 bce, Catana, Sicily), brother of the tyrant Gelon and tyrant of Syracuse,
Sicily, from 478 to 467/466 bce.
Hieron became ruler of Syracuse upon the death of Gelon. During his reign he took advantage
of the defeat of Carthaginian power in Sicily (in 480) to greatly increase the power of Syracuse.
His most important single achievement was the defeat of the Etruscans at Cumae (474), by
which he saved the Greeks of Campania (now in southern Italy).
A bronze helmet (now in the British Museum, London), with an inscription commemorating the event,
was dedicated at Olympia. He removed the inhabitants of Naxos and Catana (Catania) to Leontini,
resettled Catana (which he renamed Etna) with Dorians, concluded an alliance with Acragas (
Agrigentum, modern Agrigento), and espoused the cause of the Locrians (of southern Italy) against
Anaxilas, tyrant of Rhegium (Reggio di Calabria).
Though despotic in his rule, Hieron was a liberal patron of literature. The poets Aeschylus, Pindar,
and Bacchylides were among those who repaid his hospitality with elegant flattery.
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