bgr_1010246 - BRUTTIUM - TERINA Nomos, statère ou didrachme
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Type : Nomos, statère ou didrachme
Date: c. 440-425 AC.
Mint name / Town : Térina, Bruttium
Metal : silver
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 7,32 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli portrait. Usure importante mais régulière. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de la nymphe Terina à gauche, les cheveux ondulés avec collier et boucle d’oreille.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Niké assise à gauche sur une hydrie couchée, les ailes repliées, nue jusqu’à la ceinture, tenant une couronne de la main droite.
Reverse legend : [TER-INAIWN]
Reverse translation : (de Terina).
Historical background
BRUTTIUM - TERINA
(5th - 4th century BC)
Terina, founded in the 6th century BC, was a colony of Croton, located on the Tyrrhenian Sea, on the western coast of Bruttium. It was conquered by the Bruttians in 356 BC, then liberated by Alexander the Molossus, king of Epirus between 334 and 330 BC before passing under Roman domination after the fall of Taranto in 272 BC The city was totally destroyed during the Second Punic War by Hannibal in 203 BC.
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