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bgr_573218 - LOCRIS - OPUS Quart de statère ou hemidrachme

LOCRIS - OPUS Quart de statère ou hemidrachme XF
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Price : 150.00 €
Type : Quart de statère ou hemidrachme
Date: c. 369-338 AC
Mint name / Town : Oponte
Metal : silver
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 2,76 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée présentant quelques faiblesses. Patine grise
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Perséphone à droite cornue, couronnée d’épis.

Reverse


Reverse description : Ajax, fils d’Oilée nu, combattant à droite, coiffé d’un casque, tenant un bouclier de la main gauche et une épée courte de la main droite ; entre les jambes du héros, un canthare.
Reverse legend : OPONTIWN.

Historical background


LOCRIS - OPUS

(369-338 BC)

Oponte was the capital of Opontian Locrid. It was said to have been founded by Opous. It was the homeland of Patroclus and Ajax, son of Oileus. The Opontians fought with Leonidas at Thermopylae. The Locrians experienced their greatest expansion from the Peace of Antalcidas in 386 BC. After Philip II's victory at Chaeronea in 338 BC, the Locrians fell under Macedonian rule.

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