v43_0013 - LUCANIA - THOURIOI Nomos, statère ou didrachme
MONNAIES 43 (2010)
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 650.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 650.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Nomos, statère ou didrachme
Date: c. 350 AC.
Mint name / Town : Thurium
Metal : silver
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 7,78 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, parfaitement centré au droit, légèrement décentré au revers. Très joli droit avec un portrait expressif. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Patine de médaillier avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d'Athéna à droite coiffée du casque attique à triple aigrette orné du Skylla.
Reverse
Reverse description : Taureau se cabrant à droite ; à l'exergue, un poisson à droite.
Reverse legend : QOURIW[N]
Reverse translation : (de Thurium).
Commentary
Au droit, le coin présente de minuscules cassures dans la chevelure. Le coin de revers commence à se boucher au niveau des naseaux du taureau. Exemplaire de très bon style pour ce type de monnayage. Semble très proche stylistiquement de l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 1007, pl. 28).
On the obverse, the die has tiny breaks in the hair. The reverse die is beginning to plug at the bull's nostrils. A very good example for this type of coinage. Appears stylistically very close to the American Numismatic Society example (ANS. 1007, pl. 28)
On the obverse, the die has tiny breaks in the hair. The reverse die is beginning to plug at the bull's nostrils. A very good example for this type of coinage. Appears stylistically very close to the American Numismatic Society example (ANS. 1007, pl. 28)
Historical background
LUCANIA - THOURIOI
(5th - 4th century BC)
Thurium whose name would be derived from a fountain named Thuria, the new Sybaris, was founded in 443 BC on the site of the ancient Sybaris, destroyed in 510 BC by the Crotoniates. It was a Pan-Hellenic Athenian colony, initially populated by Messenians, driven out by the Spartans. Its silver coinage was very important. Around 390 BC, the Lucanians inflicted a serious defeat on the inhabitants of Thurium (Diodorus of Sicily XIV, 101) which did not affect the prosperity of the city. It fell under the thumb of the Brettiens in 268 before. It was refounded in 194 BC under the name of Copia by the Romans. At the end of the Republic, again, the name of Thurium is attested. Octave-Auguste was born there on September 23, 63 BC.
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