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bgr_700812 - CALABRIA - TARAS Nomos ou statère

CALABRIA - TARAS Nomos ou statère AU
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Price : 680.00 €
Type : Nomos ou statère
Date: c. 281-272 AC.
Mint name / Town : Tarente, Calabre
Metal : silver
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 6,57 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier bien centré. Joli droit, bien venu à la frappe. Très joli revers de style fin. Belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets mordorés

Obverse


Obverse description : Cavalier nu passant au pas à droite, couronnant son cheval, couronné par Niké volant à droite et le couronnant.
Obverse legend : ZI/ LU - QE

Reverse


Reverse description : Taras nu, chevauchant un dauphin à gauche, tenant un canthare de la main droite et un trident de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : TARAS
Reverse translation : (Tarente).

Commentary


Semble de même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 1117).
Appears to be the same obverse die as the American Numismatic Society copy (ANS. 1117)

Historical background


CALABRIA - TARAS

(281-272 BC)

Pyrrhus Strategos, King of Epirus

Following the arrival of Pyrrhus in Italy, in 281 BC, the consul L. Aemilius Barbula devastated the territory of the Tarentines after the destruction of a Roman squadron in the Gulf of Taranto. Pyrrhus, thanks to his elephants and to everyone's surprise, won the indecisive battle of Heraclea in 279 BC, hence the expression "Pyrrhic victory" which is equivalent to a victory which leaves the winner so exhausted that a defeat would not have weakened him more.

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