fme_549984 - LUCANIA - THOURIOI Médaille, Reproduction du Triobole de Thurium (Lucanie), n°91
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Type : Médaille, Reproduction du Triobole de Thurium (Lucanie), n°91
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Monnaie de Paris
Metal : copper
Diameter : 69 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 222,9 g.
Edge : lisse + corne CUIVRE + N°91/500
Puncheon : corne CUIVRE
Coments on the condition:
Patine verte. Petites marques d’usure sur les points hauts
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d’Athéna à droite coiffée du casque attique à triple aigrette orné du Skylla.
Reverse
Reverse description : Taureau chargeant à droite, tête baissée; un poisson (dauphin) à l’exergue.
Reverse legend : QOURIWN.
Reverse translation : (de Thurium).
Commentary
Cette médaille est le 91e exemplaire sur 500 exemplaires frappés. La médaille reprend en modèle le triobole de Thurium (Lucanie).
Historical background
LUCANIA - THOURIOI
(350-281 BC)
Thurium whose name would be derived from a fountain named Thuria, the new Sybaris, was founded in 443 BC on the site of the ancient Sybaris, destroyed in 510 BC by the Crotoniates. It was a Pan-Hellenic Athenian colony, initially populated by Messenians, driven out by the Spartans. Its silver coinage was very important. Around 390 BC, the Lucanians inflicted a serious defeat on the inhabitants of Thurium (Diodorus of Sicily XIV, 101) which did not affect the prosperity of the city. The city fell to the Brettians in 268 BC. It was refounded in 194 BC under the name of Copia by the Romans. At the end of the Republic, again, the name of Thurium is attested. Octave-Auguste was born in Thurium on September 23, 63 BC.
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