bgr_849115 - BRUTTIUM - CROTON Nomos ou statère
750.00 €(Approx. 795.00$ | 622.50£)
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Type : Nomos ou statère
Date: c. 500-480 AC.
Mint name / Town : Crotone, Bruttium
Metal : silver
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 7,93 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Très jolie représentation du droit. Revers agréable. Fine usure régulière. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : QPO RÉTROGRADE.
Obverse description : Trépied delphien ; un crabe dans le champ à droite ; grènetis circulaire.
Obverse translation : (Crotone).
Reverse
Reverse legend : QPO RÉTROGRADE.
Reverse description : Trépied incus ; grènetis en creux ; dauphin dans le champ gauche.
Historical background
BRUTTIUM - CROTON
(510-480 BC)
Crotone is an Achaean colony founded in 710 BC Under the leadership of Milon, the Crotoniates captured Sybaris and destroyed it. In the following century, following internal struggles, the city declined before falling into the hands of Dionysius of Syracuse in 378 BC, then Agathokles in 296 BC and finally between those of Pyrrhus in 277 BCE. It was conquered by the Romans during the Second Punic War after the Battle of Cannae in 216 BC.
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