bgr_941134 - APULIA - ARPI Triobole
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Type : Triobole
Date: c. 215-212 AC.
Mint name / Town : Arpi, Apulie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,36 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie légèrement décentrée au revers. Joli portrait d’Athéna. Usure régulière. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée d’Athéna à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse description : Trois épis.
Reverse legend : ARP.
Reverse translation : (d’Arpi).
Historical background
APULIA - ARPI
(4th - 3rd century BC)
Arpi, ancient city of Apulia, located northeast of Foggia, was south of Aquilo about twenty kilometers from Sipontum. Tradition attributed the foundation of Arpi to Diomedes (Pliny HN, III, 104) (Strabo, VI, 3.9). Arpi was first Rome's ally in the wars against the Samnites. In 216, after the disaster of Cannae where Rome was crushed, Dazos, the ruler of Arpi abandoned the Roman alliance to rally Hannibal and the Carthaginians (Appian, Hannibal VII, 31). Quintus Fabius Maximus retook the city in 213 BC, Dazos driven out and the city treated harshly. Following this event, Arpi collapsed.
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