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Live auction - bgr_559426 - CALABRIA - TARAS Nomos ou didrachme

CALABRIA - TARAS Nomos ou didrachme AU
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Estimate : 550 €
Price : 390 €
Maximum bid : 390 €
End of the sale : 28 January 2020 14:01:53
bidders : 2 bidders
Type : Nomos ou didrachme
Date: c. 302-281 AC.
Mint name / Town : Tarente, Calabre
Metal : silver
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 7,61 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Joli revers. Usure régulière. Patine grise

Obverse


Obverse description : Cavalier nu galopant à droite, brandissant une javeline de la main droite, tenant de la main gauche, la bride de son cheval, deux javelines transversales et un bouclier rond vu de l’intérieur.
Obverse legend : SI// DEINOKRATHS.
Obverse translation : (Deinocratès).

Reverse


Reverse description : Taras nu, chevauchant un dauphin à gauche, s’appuyant de la main gauche sur le dos de l’animal et de la main droite tendue, un petit dauphin.
Reverse legend : TARAS.
Reverse translation : (Tarente).

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..

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