Live auction - bgr_412036 - LUCANIA - THOURIOI Nomos, statère ou didrachme
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| Estimate : | 650 € |
| Price : | 380 € |
| Maximum bid : | 381 € |
| End of the sale : | 31 January 2017 14:02:00 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Nomos, statère ou didrachme
Date: c. 281 AC.
Mint name / Town : Thurium, Lucanie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,49 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale et irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Belle tête d’Athéna bien venue à la frappe. Joli revers de style fin avec un petit plat sur la tête du taureau. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
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 ; deux lettres à l’exergue.
Reverse legend : QOURIWN// FA
Reverse translation : (de Thurium).
Commentary
Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de la collection de l’Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, n° 1005, pl. XVI).
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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