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Live auction - bgr_671488 - EPIRUS - KINGDOM OF EPIRUS - PYRRHUS Octobole

EPIRUS - KINGDOM OF EPIRUS - PYRRHUS Octobole AU/VF
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Estimate : 400 €
Price : 520 €
Maximum bid : 750 €
End of the sale : 26 April 2022 14:08:08
bidders : 2 bidders
Type : Octobole
Date: c. 297-272 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : silver
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 5,38 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie légèrement décentrée au revers. Joli portrait de Koré. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire de la collection Aymé Cornu

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Koré à gauche ; derrière un symbole.

Reverse


Reverse description : Athéna debout à gauche tenant une lance et un bouclier.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ PURROU.
Reverse translation : (du roi Pyrrhus).

Historical background


EPIRUS - KINGDOM OF EPIRUS - PYRRHUS

(295-272 BC)

Pyrrhus (318-272 BC;) nephew of Alexander the Great was a great soldier and a multifaceted adventurer. Alternately, king of Epirus, of Macedonia, he finally found death fighting against Antigone Gonatas, the son of Demetrius Poliorcetes, brother-in-law of Pyrrhus. Better known in the West, he fought against Rome at the call of the Tarentines and won several victories, including that of Heraclea (a Pyrrhic victory) before being defeated at the Battle of Benevento in 275 BC, thus allowing Rome to complete the conquest of southern Italy. Pyrrhus, son-in-law of Agathocles also intervenes in Sicily by driving out the Carthaginians. Finally, he retired to Greece before wanting to conquer the Peloponnese and dying there..

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