bgr_835269 - CALABRIA - BRUNDISIUM Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 215 AC.
Mint name / Town : Brundisium, Calabre
Metal : copper
Diameter : 14,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,81 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire centré. Joli revers. Usure régulière. Patine vert foncé, tachée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : S.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Poséidon à droite .
Reverse
Reverse legend : BRVN.
Reverse description : Personnage nu, chevauchant un dauphin à gauche, tenant une Niké de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Historical background
CALABRIA - BRUNDISIUM
(2nd century BC)
The name Brundisium (Brindisi) would come from the shape of its port with two basins having the shape of deer antlers in the local idiom. Phalantos, the hero perched on a dolphin, would be dead and buried there, according to the account of Strabo in his Geography (VI. 3,6), would be an explanation for the representation of the reverse of many coins. Having become a Roman colony in 244 BC, Brundisium became the main port on the eastern coast of Calabria on the Adriatic bound for the Orient and played an important role in the various wars waged against Antiochos III, the Macedonian kings, Philip V and Perseus, finally Mithridates VI of Pontus. The Via Appia (Appian Way) ended at Brundisium where an arch was raised by decree of the Senate in 31 BC at the instigation of Octavian.
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