Live auction - bgr_370801 - BRUTTIUM - CROTON Diobole
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| Estimate : | 750 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 15 December 2015 14:01:30 |
Type : Diobole
Date: c. 300-250 AC.
Mint name / Town : Crotone, Bruttium
Metal : silver
Diameter : 12 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 1,03 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Belle tête d’Athéna. Revers inhabituel avec l’intégralité de la léonté visible. Patine grise superficielle avec des reflets dorés. A été nettoyé anciennement
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente CNG XXXI, 9-10 septembre 1994, n° 57 (coll. Dr. Frank J. Novak)
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête d’Athéna à droite, coiffée du casque corinthien à triple aigrette, les cheveux tombant sur la nuque.
Obverse legend : KROTW
Obverse translation : (Crotone).
Reverse
Reverse description : Héraklès debout à droite, vêtu de la léonté, le pied gauche posé sur un rocher, s’appuyant sur sa massue de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : OIKISTAS
Reverse translation : (Oikistas).
Commentary
Sur cet exemplaire, la léonté est complète, couvrant la tête et courant le long du corps d’Héraklès sur son dos, la queue bien visible. C’est une représentation particulière de la léonté .
Historical background
BRUTTIUM - CROTON
(4th-3rd century 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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