bgr_816350 - BRUTTIUM - CROTON Nomos ou statère
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Type : Nomos ou statère
Date: c. 480-450 AC.
Mint name / Town : Crotone, Bruttium
Metal : silver
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 7,67 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie légèrement décentrée au revers. Usure importante mais régulière. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : QPO RÉTROGRADE.
Obverse description : Trépied delphien ; un héron dans le champ à gauche tourné à droite ; grènetis circulaire.
Reverse
Reverse description : Trépied incus ; grènetis en creux.
Historical background
BRUTTIUM - CROTON
(5th 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 BC. It was conquered by the Romans during the Second Punic War after the Battle of Cannae in 216 BC..
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