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E-auction 18-4786 - bgr_244713 - BRUTTIUM - TERINA Sixième de statère

BRUTTIUM - TERINA Sixième de statère VF
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Estimate : 115 €
Price : 42 €
Maximum bid : 50 €
End of the sale : 19 August 2013 15:00:30
bidders : 7 bidders
Type : Sixième de statère
Date: c. 420-400 AC.
Mint name / Town : Bruttium, Térina
Metal : silver
Diameter : 10,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,07 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier, centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Revers à l’usure très importante, identifiable. Patine grise

Obverse


Obverse legend : LÉGENDE RÉTROGRADE.
Obverse description : Tête de la nymphe Terina à gauche, les cheveux tirés en arrière et retenus par un sphendoné.
Obverse legend : [TERI].
Obverse translation : (de Térina).

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Niké assise à gauche sur un cippe carré, les ailes repliées, nue jusqu’à la ceinture, tenant du bout de la main droite un filet.
Reverse legend : P.

Commentary


Poids très léger. Mêmes coins que les exemplaires de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 874-875, pl. 25). Dans le catalogue Hirsch, cette monnaie était décrite comme un trihémiobole.

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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