fme_1008939 - SICILY - NAXOS Médaille, Reproduction d’une Tetradrachme de Naxos, n°161
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Type : Médaille, Reproduction d’une Tetradrachme de Naxos, n°161
Date: 1977
Mint name / Town : Monnaie de Paris
Quantity minted : 500
Metal : copper
Diameter : 54 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 105,22 g.
Edge : lisse + corne CU + 1977 + N°161/500
Puncheon : corne CU
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène sombre avec des traces d’un ancien nettoyage
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Dionysos à droite avec la couronne de lierre.
Reverse
Reverse description : Silène nu et barbu assis de face, la tête tournée à gauche, buvant dans un canthare .
Reverse legend : NAXI-ON
Reverse translation : (De Naxos).
Commentary
Médaille conservée dans sa boîte cartonnée bleue.
Historical background
SICILY - NAXOS
(5th century BC)
Naxos is the oldest Greek colony in Sicily. It was founded by Chalcidians coming from Euboea in 734 BC. The city was located on the eastern coast of the island, near the city of Taromenion at the foot of Mount Taormina, not far from Etna. In 490 BC, Hippocrates of Gela submitted the city. In 476 BC, Hieron transplanted the populations of Catania and Naxos to Leontini. The city regained its independence in 461 BC. The city then experienced significant development between 450 and 404 BC, when it was finally destroyed by Dionysius of Syracuse..
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