bgr_696282 - BRUTTIUM - RHEGIUM Pentonkion
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Item sold on our e-shop (2021)
Price : 320.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2021)
Price : 320.00 €
Type : Pentonkion
Date: c. 203-150 AC.
Mint name / Town : Bruttium, Rhégium
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 25,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 12,72 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Représentation inhabituelle du droit. Revers intéressant. Patine marron foncé
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Cet exemplaire provient du stock Argenor (1999)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête janiforme imberbe, surmontée d’un chapiteau.
Reverse
Reverse description : Asklepios (Esculape) barbu nu jusqu’à la ceinture assis à gauche sur un siège sans dossier, tenant un sceptre long de la main droite ; dans le champ à gauche, un trépied.
Reverse legend : RHGINWN/ P.
Reverse translation : (de Rhégium/ pentonkion).
Commentary
Cet exemplaire ne semble pas surfrappé.
Historical background
BRUTTIUM - RHEGIUM
(203-89 BC)
Rhegium (Rhegion), the last city of the Italian boot on the continent, located on the Strait of Messina opposite Sicily, was founded around 720 BC by Chalcidian settlers. The city was destroyed in 387 BC by Dionysius of Syracuse. It was nevertheless rebuilt by Dionysius the Younger around 356-350 BC. The Romans captured the city in 271 BC, but were quickly expelled. After 203 BC and the end of the Second Punic War, Rhegium fell definitively under Roman domination..
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