E-auction 5-838 - bgr_228871 - BRUTTIUM - TERINA Nomos ou statère
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| Estimate : | 550 € |
| Price : | 210 € |
| Maximum bid : | 250 € |
| End of the sale : | 25 April 2013 17:01:30 |
| bidders : | 10 bidders |
Type : Nomos ou statère
Date: c. 425-400 AC.
Mint name / Town : Bruttium, Térina
Metal : silver
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 7,45 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, ovale. Frappé avec un coin légèrement usé. Usure importante, mais exemplaire de bonne facture. Frappé avec un coin mou au revers
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES XXV, n° 18, de MONNAIES 29, n° 5, de MONNAIES 34, n° 30 et de MONNAIES 41, n° 38
Obverse
Obverse legend : LÉGENDE RÉTROGRADE.
Obverse description : Tête de la nymphe Terina à gauche, les cheveux tirés en arrière et retenus par un bandeau orné avec collier et boucle d’oreille.
Obverse legend : TER-[NA]ION/P.
Obverse translation : (De Térina).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Niké assise à gauche sur un cippe carré, les ailes repliées, nue jusqu’à la ceinture, tenant du bout de la main droite un caducée posé verticalement.
Reverse legend : P.
Commentary
Même coin de droit que les exemplaires de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 826-827). Semble de même coin de revers que l’exemplaire (ANS. 826).
Historical background
BRUTTIUM - TERINA
(5th - 4th century BC)
Terina, founded in the 6th century BC, was a colony of Croton, located on the Tyrrhenian Sea, on the western coast of Bruttium. It was conquered by the Bruttians in 356 BC, then liberated by Alexander the Molossus, king of Epirus between 334 and 330 BC before passing under Roman domination after the fall of Taranto in 272 BC The city was totally destroyed during the Second Punic War by Hannibal in 203 BC.
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