bgr_998248 - BRUTTIUM - REGGIO Obole
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Type : Obole
Date: c. 350-270
Mint name / Town : Rhégium, Bruttium
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 6,26 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée à l’usure importante mais régulière. Droit agréable. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Masque de lion vu de face.
Reverse
Reverse description : Tête laurée d’Apollon à droite, les cheveux longs tombant sur la nuque ; derrière la tête symbole (corne d’abondance).
Reverse legend : RHGINWN
Reverse translation : (de Rhegium).
Historical background
BRUTTIUM - REGGIO
(387-271 BC)
Rhegium (Rhegion), the last city of the Italian boot on the continent, located on the Strait of Messina opposite Sicily, was founded around 720 BC by Chalcidian settlers. The city was destroyed in 387 BC by Dionysius of Syracuse. It was nevertheless rebuilt by Dionysius the Younger around 356-350 BC. The Romans captured the city in 271 BC, but were quickly expelled. After 203 BC and the end of the Second Punic War, Rhegium fell definitively under Roman rule..
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