E-auction 31-10522 - bgr_275388 - BRUTTIUM - LOCRI Drachme ou unité
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| Estimate : | 195 € |
| Price : | 69 € |
| Maximum bid : | 82 € |
| End of the sale : | 18 November 2013 15:02:00 |
| bidders : | 8 bidders |
Type : Drachme ou unité
Date: c. 281-272 AC.
Mint name / Town : Locres, Bruttium
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 2 h.
Weight : 14,95 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, bien centré des deux côtés, à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement identifiable. Très beau portrait. Sujet de revers inhabituel. Patine rougeâtre au droit et marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête d’Athéna à droite, coiffée du casque corinthien à aigrette.
Obverse legend : EU.
Reverse
Reverse description : Perséphone drapée assise à gauche, tenant une phiale de la main droite et un sceptre transversal surmonté d’un pavot ; de chaque côté, un astre à huit rais.
Reverse legend : [LOKRON].
Reverse translation : (de Locres).
Commentary
Poids léger. Semble de même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de la collection de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 570).
Historical background
BRUTTIUM - LOCRI
(4th - 3rd century BC)
Lokroi Epizephyrioi (Locres) was founded in 690 BC by Locrian and Opontian settlers. The city, an ally of Syracuse, fell under the domination of Dionysius I in 388 BC. The city only regained its autonomy in 346 BC, when its coinage began. Its territory was one of the largest in Magna Graecia, and therefore vulnerable. The Locrians appealed to Alexander the Molossian, king of Epirus, to intervene in southern Italy against the Lucanian tribes and the Brettians. Alexander, installed in Locres, led several offensives before finding death in 330 BC in Pandosia. During the intervention of Pyrrhus, from 280 BC, in southern Italy at the behest of Taranto, Locri found itself to be the headquarters of the Epirote king. But after the king's departure in 277 BC, the Locrians entered the Roman alliance by helping drive out the Greek garrison. During the Second Punic War, Locri opened its doors to Hannibal in 216 BC after the disaster at Cannae and was one of the main supply ports for the Carthaginians. The city was finally taken by Scipio in 205 BC.
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