Live auction - bgr_556063 - CALABRIA - TARAS Nomos, statère ou didrachme
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| Estimate : | 1 100 € |
| Price : | 1 070 € |
| Maximum bid : | 2 200 € |
| End of the sale : | 03 December 2019 14:02:30 |
| bidders : | 4 bidders |
Type : Nomos, statère ou didrachme
Date: c. 235 AC.
Mint name / Town : Tarente
Metal : silver
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,53 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique exemplaire, bien centré. Superbe représentation du droit. Monnaie de haut-relief, finement détaillée qui a gardée une grande partie de son coupant d’origine. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la vente Elsen, auction 123, lot n° 6
Obverse
Obverse legend : SOUS LE CHEVAL, LÉGENDE GRECQUE.
Obverse description : Dioscure, vêtu de la tunique courte et la chlamyde flottant au vent, levant la main droite, l’épée au fourreau, à cheval au pas à gauche, levant l’antérieur droit ; derrière, dans le champ supérieur, un bonnet des Dioscures.
Obverse legend : XE - NOKRA/T-HS/ (TRK).
Obverse translation : (Xenokratès).
Reverse
Reverse description : Taras, coiffé d’une couronne feuillue nu, debout de face, chevauchant un dauphin à gauche, tenant un trident de la main droite reposant sur son épaule et un pan de sa chlamyde de la main gauche ; sous le dauphin, les flots (non visibles ici).
Reverse legend : TARAS // (SW).
Historical background
CALABRIA - TARAS
(235-228 BC)
Autonomous - Second Treaty with the Romans
In 272 BC, Taranto surrendered, after a long siege, to the consul Lucius Papirius Cursor. After the departure of Pyrrhus, Taranto submitted to Rome. Under the impetus of Consul Spurius Carvilius Maximus, Taranto, an ally of Rome at first, finally rallied to Hannibal in 213 BC. The Roman garrison, taking refuge on the acropolis of Taranto, resisted for five years. The city was finally submitted by Fabius Maximus in 209 BC who reduced most of the population to slavery, thirty thousand people according to Livy (XXVI, 39).
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