bgr_998279 - BRUTTIUM - RHEGIUM Tetras
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Type : Tetras
Date: c. 203-89 AC.
Mint name / Town : Rhégium
Metal : copper
Diameter : 14,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 2,28 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Portrait agréable. Usure importante mais régulière. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Asklépios (Esculape) à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Hygiée (la Santé) drapée debout à gauche, tenant une phiale de la main droite et nourissant un serpent.
Reverse legend : RHGINWN/ III
Commentary
Pour ce type, il existe deux modules très différents de 22 et de 13 millimètres environ avec un poids de 8 grammes pour le premier et de 2 grammes pour le second. Droit et revers se rapportent aux cultes de la Santé et d’Asklépios, dieu de la Médecine, liés tout deux à Apollon, le dieu principal de Rhégium.
For this type, there are two very different modules of about 22 and 13 millimeters with a weight of 8 grams for the first and 2 grams for the second. Obverse and reverse relate to the cults of Health and Asklepios, god of Medicine, both linked to Apollo, the main god of Rhegium
For this type, there are two very different modules of about 22 and 13 millimeters with a weight of 8 grams for the first and 2 grams for the second. Obverse and reverse relate to the cults of Health and Asklepios, god of Medicine, both linked to Apollo, the main god of Rhegium
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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