bgr_720003 - BRUTTIUM - CROTON Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 333-331 AC.
Mint name / Town : Crotone, Bruttium
Metal : copper
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,86 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli portrait. Usure régulière. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste d’Héraklès à droite portante la léonté.
Obverse legend : H.
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle volant à droite, tenant un serpent dans ses serres.
Reverse legend : KRO.
Reverse translation : (de Crotone).
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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