Live auction - bgr_412018 - CALABRIA - TARAS Diobole

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Estimate :	250 €
Price :	145 €
Maximum bid :	145 €
End of the sale :	31 January 2017 14:01:00
bidders :	1 bidder

Type : Diobole

Date: c. 325-280 AC.

Mint name / Town : Tarente, Calabre

Metal : silver

Diameter : 11 mm

Orientation dies : 11 h.

Weight : 0,84 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, bien centré au droit, un peu court au revers sur Héraklès. Joli tête d’Athéna. Revers de style fin. Belle patine de collection ancienne

Catalogue references :

V.1368 (cf. 1384 A/) - Côte- - ANS.- - MIAMG.1765 var. (R) (350€) - HN. Italy- - SNG. France 6./-

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête d'Athéna (Minerve) à droite, coiffée du casque attique à cimier orné d’un skylla (monstre marin).

Reverse

Reverse legend : C.

Reverse description : Héraklès (Hercule) debout à droite, étranglant le lion de Némée; massue dans le champ à gauche, posée verticalement ; lettre entre les jambes d’Héraklès.

Reverse legend : [TAR]/ .

Commentary

Hybride associant un droit d’un type (V. 1384) et un revers de l’autre (. 1368). Sur cet exemplaire, au revers,la musculature d’Héraklès est bien détaillée. Cette émission est bien ciblée avec la lettre (C) entre les jambes d’Héraklès qui semble regravée sur un phi.

Historical background

CALABRIA - TARAS

(302-281 BC)

Between the departure of Kleonymos from Sparta in 302 BC and the arrival of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus twenty years later, the history of Taranto and its territory remains poorly known with many areas historical and monetary shadows. The intervention of the Epirote monarch was to mark the beginning of the decline of the Tarentine city..