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bgr_350295 - LUCANIA - THOURIOI Nomos, statère ou didrachme

LUCANIA - THOURIOI Nomos, statère ou didrachme AU
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Price : 850.00 €
Type : Nomos, statère ou didrachme
Date: c. 281 AC.
Mint name / Town : Thurium, Lucanie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 6,27 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un grand flan irrégulier, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Portrait magnifique frappé avec un coin rouillé. Revers de style fin avec une petite faiblesse sur la tête du taureau. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente d’Aix enchères du 26 octobre 2007, n° 11 et de la collection d’Élisabeth

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 : QOURIW[N]// 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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