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Live starting : Type : Tetradrachme
Date: c. 278-275 AC.
Mint name / Town : Bruttium, Locres
Metal : silver
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 16,39 g.
Rarity : R3
Slab
NGC :
Coments on the condition:
Très belle monnaie sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Joli portrait de Zeus, bien venu à la frappe. Revers agréable, détaillé. Patine grise avec de légers reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection Henri Joseph Marie Jules De Nanteuil de la Morville (1876-1941), p. 287, n° 865, pl. LIII. Sous coque NGC VF (strike 5/5, Surface 3/5)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête barbue de Zeus Dodona couronné de feuilles de chêne à gauche ; un foudre derrière la tête.
Reverse
Reverse description : Dione trônant à gauche, coiffée du polos, relavant de la main gauche, le voile de son vêtement et tenant un sceptre transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ PURROU/ A
Reverse translation : (du roi Pyrrhus).
Commentary
Dans le catalogue de la collection Henri Joseph Marie Jules De Nanteuil de la Morville (1876-1941), p. 287, n° 865 (commentaire), il est indiqué que ce tétradrachme a été trouvé en 1924 à Locres et corrobore le fait que cette piècee ait été frappé sur place à Locres Epizephyroi (Bruttium).
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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