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bgr_921925 - CALABRIA - TARAS Nomos, statère ou didrachme

CALABRIA - TARAS Nomos, statère ou didrachme AU
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Price : 550.00 €
Type : Nomos, statère ou didrachme
Date: c. 275 AC.
Mint name / Town : Tarente, Calabre
Metal : silver
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 6,35 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée des deux côtés. Joli revers. Patine grise avec de légers reflets dorés
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse description : Cavalier nu, coiffé d’un casque attique à triple aigrette, galopant à droite, tenant une javeline transversale de la main droite, un bouclier et deux autres javelines de la main gauche.
Obverse legend : EU/ SWST/ATOS

Reverse


Reverse description : Taras nu, chevauchant un dauphin à gauche, tenant une petite Niké stéphanophoros de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche ; derrière à droite, un foudre (fulmen).
Reverse legend : T-ARAS /POLU
Reverse translation : (Tarente).

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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