Live auction - bgr_889488 - BRUTTIUM - REGGIO Tétradrachme
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Live starting : Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 435-425 AC.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 30,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 16,87 g.
Rarity : R3
Slab
NGC :
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire sur un flan large, centré des deux côtés. Revers agréable. Superbe masque de lion, bien venu à la frappe et finement détaillé. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la vente Picard, Paris 14 mars 1923, n° 220 et de la de la collection Henri Joseph Marie Jules De Nanteuil de la Morville (1876-1941), p. 74-75, n° 235, pl. XIV. Monnaie sous coque NGC XF (Strike 4/5, Surface 2/5)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Masque de lion vu de face.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LÉGENDE RÉTROGRADE.
Reverse description : Iokaste, nu jusqu'à la ceinture assis à gauche sur un siège, tenant de la main droite un bâton ; sous le trône, un bourgeon ; le tout dans une couronne de laurier.
Reverse legend : RH-GINWS/ EK
Commentary
Iocastos est considéré comme le fondateur mythique de Rhégion. Les auteurs du catalogue de la collection de Nanteuil indique que Vlasto indiquait que la lettre K, pourrait être l’initiale du graveur Cratesippos(cf. L Forrer, Notes sur les signatures des graveurs sur les monnaies grecques, Bruxelles, 1906, p. 12 & 228-229) tandis que Hill, Handbbod of Greek and Roman Coins, Londres, 1899, p. 15 propose la lecture K. EPOEI.
Historical background
BRUTTIUM - REGGIO
(466-415 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. Anaxilas, tyrant of Rhegium, welcomed many Greeks from Asia Minor who fled the Persian danger in 494 BC. With the help of his new colonists, he conquered Zancle which was renamed Messina, occupied by many Messenians. Anaxilas won a victory at the Olympics of 480 BC and introduced a mule bege on the coinage of Rhegium and Messina before extending it to most of Sicily. The tyrant's son was driven out in 476 BC. Democracy was established in 461 BC and this date marks the beginning of coinage with the founding hero of the city, Iokaste. The city was destroyed in 387 BC by Dionysius of Syracuse.
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