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Live auction - bgr_497109 - BRUTTIUM - CROTON Triobole

BRUTTIUM - CROTON Triobole XF
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Estimate : 350 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 31 July 2018 14:03:30
Type : Triobole
Date: c. 300-250 AC.
Mint name / Town : Crotone, Bruttium
Metal : silver
Diameter : 12,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,03 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Belle tête d’Athéna. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Jolie patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse description : Tête d’Athéna à droite, coiffée du casque corinthien à triple aigrette, les cheveux tombant sur la nuque.
Obverse legend : KROTW.
Obverse translation : (Crotone).

Reverse


Reverse description : Héraklès debout à droite, vêtu de la léonté, le pied gauche posé sur un rocher, s’appuyant sur sa massue de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : OIKISTAS/ D.
Reverse translation : (Oikistas).

Commentary


Sur cet exemplaire, la léonté est complète, couvrant la tête et courant le long du corps d’Héraklès sur son dos, la queue bien visible. C’est une représentation particulière de la léonté . Un petit delta est bien visible derrière Héraklès.

Historical background


BRUTTIUM - CROTON

(4th-3rd century BC)

Crotone is an Achaean colony founded in 710 BC Under the leadership of Milon, the Crotoniates captured Sybaris and destroyed it. In the following century, following internal struggles, the city declined before falling into the hands of Dionysius of Syracuse in 378 BC, then Agathokles in 296 BC and finally between those of Pyrrhus in 277 BCE. It was conquered by the Romans during the Second Punic War after the Battle of Cannae in 216 BC.

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