v18_0010 - LUCANIA - THOURIOI Nomos, statère ou didrachme
MONNAIES 18 (2003)
Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 1 400.00 €
Realised price : 650.00 €
Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 1 400.00 €
Realised price : 650.00 €
Type : Nomos, statère ou didrachme
Date: c. 340 AC.
Mint name / Town : Thurium
Metal : silver
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,79 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, légèrement ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés, légèrement irrégulier et échancré au revers à 3, 5 et 7 heures. Revers de haut relief pour ce monnayage avec l’inscription complète. Jolie patine de médaillier
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de la maison Feuardent (800 francs)
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 ; à l'exergue, un thon à droite.
Reverse legend : QOURIWN
Commentary
Même coin de revers que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 1007).
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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