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v25_0006 - LUCANIA - METAPONTUM Nomos ou didrachme

LUCANIA - METAPONTUM Nomos ou didrachme AU
MONNAIES 25 (2006)
Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
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Type : Nomos ou didrachme
Date: c. 400-350 AC.
Mint name / Town : Métaponte
Metal : silver
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 7,62 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Portrait magnifique, bien centré et finement patiné. Revers bien venu à la frappe avec une petite faiblesse sur l’ethnique
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Ratto des 25 et 26 janvier 1926, n° 488 (coll. Sambon)

Obverse


Obverse legend : I.
Obverse description : Tête de Déméter à droite, les cheveux relevés, tirés en arrière, tenus dans un filet (sphendoné) avec des boucles d'oreilles.

Reverse


Reverse legend : META ; DANS LE CHAMP À DROITE, A.
Reverse description : Épi de blé sur sa tige.

Commentary


Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de la collection de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 381, mais qui note un bêta couché derrière la tête au lieu d’un iota).

Historical background


LUCANIA - METAPONTUM

(470-350 BC)

Metaponte, an Achaean colony located in the Gulf of Taranto, is said to have been founded in 773 BC. First allied with the Sybarites and the Crotoniates, it then took possession of the territories of Siris. After the destruction of Sybaris by Crotone in 510 BC, the city welcomed Pythagoras. It played an important role until the end of the Punic Wars. This coinage was struck in 334 BC, at the time of the intervention of Alexander the Molossus, brother-in-law of Alexander the Great, who was called by the Tarentines to fight against the tribes of southern Italy . Alexander establishes a workshop in Métaponte. He died at the Battle of Pandosia in 330 BC fighting against the Lucanians and the Bruttians.

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