Live auction - bgr_970455 - CALABRIA - TARAS Nomos, statère ou didrachme
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Live starting : Type : Nomos, statère ou didrachme
Date: c. 235-228 AC.
Mint name / Town : Tarente
Metal : silver
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 6,47 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée des deux côtés. Superbe représentation du droit. Revers agréable. Patine grise avec de légers reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : SOUS LE CHEVAL, LÉGENDE GRECQUE.
Obverse description : Cavalier nu galopant à droite, brandissant une javeline courte de la main droite et tenant les rênes de la main gauche ; derrière une couronne.
Obverse legend : OLUMPIS
Obverse translation : (Olympis).
Reverse
Reverse description : Taras nu, chevauchant un dauphin à gauche, tenant un canthare de la main droite et un trident de la main gauche ; derrière Taras, un trépied delphien.
Reverse legend : T-ARAS
Reverse translation : (Taras).
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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