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v08_0002 - CALABRIA - TARAS Nomos, statère ou didrachme
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 533.57 €
Estimate : 838.47 €
Realised price : 533.57 €
Starting price : 533.57 €
Estimate : 838.47 €
Realised price : 533.57 €
Type : Nomos, statère ou didrachme
Date: c. 340 AC
Mint name / Town : Calabre, Tarente
Metal : silver
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 7,78 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Pièce de haut relief. Exemplaire de très beau style pour le maître Kal. Tranche légèrement grattée et irrégulière / Légèrement décentré au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Cavalier galopant à droite tenant une javeline transversale de la main droite, un bouclier et deux autres javelines de la main gauche.
Obverse legend : KAL// N// L-I
Reverse
Reverse description : Taras nu, chevauchant un dauphin à droite, tenant un casque à cimier de la main droite.
Reverse legend : TARAS/ FI
Commentary
Semble complètement inédit et non répertorié avec cette combinaison de lettres au droit et au revers.
Seems completely unpublished and unlisted with this combination of letters on the right and reverse
Seems completely unpublished and unlisted with this combination of letters on the right and reverse
Historical background
CALABRIA - TARAS
(344-334 BC)
Archidamos III strategos, King of Spartia
Taranto, founded around 706 BC by the Parthenopeans was the only colony in Sparta. According to mythology, Taras was the son of Poseidon and the nymph Satyra. He was saved during a shipwreck by a dolphin who deposited him near the future City. The legend TARAS designates the city. Taranto had to fight against the Lucanians and appealed in 345 BC to Archidamos, king of Sparta. The latter tried to contain the progression of the Lucanian tribes. Unfortunately, Archidamos was defeated and killed at the Battle of Mandurias in 338 BC..
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