Live auction - bgr_385762 - BRUTTIUM - CROTON Nomos ou statère
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| Estimate : | 1 500 € |
| Price : | 2 150 € |
| Maximum bid : | 2 200 € |
| End of the sale : | 19 April 2016 14:03:55 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Nomos ou statère
Date: c. 500-480 AC.
Mint name / Town : Crotone, Bruttium
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Weight : 7,08 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, à l’usure régulière. Beau droit avec un crabe bien visible. Patine grise aux reflets mordorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : QPO RÉTROGRADE.
Obverse description : Trépied delphien ; un crabe dans le champ à gauche ; grènetis circulaire.
Obverse translation : (Crotone).
Reverse
Reverse legend : QPO RÉTROGRADE.
Reverse description : Trépied incus ; grènetis en creux ; lyre dans le champ à gauche.
Commentary
Au droit, les lettres de l’ethnique sont rétrogrades. Crabe bien visible.
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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