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bgr_759220 - LUCANIA - METAPONTUM Nomos ou didrachme

LUCANIA - METAPONTUM Nomos ou didrachme XF
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Price : 320.00 €
Type : Nomos ou didrachme
Date: c. 430-400 AC.
Mint name / Town : Métaponte
Metal : silver
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,84 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan court, centré des deux côtés. Joli épi au revers. Patine grise avec reflets dorés
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Obverse


Obverse description : Tête de Déméter à droite, coiffée de l’ampyx avec collier et boucles d’oreille ; un grain d’orge derrière la tête.

Reverse


Reverse description : Épi de blé sur sa tige.
Reverse legend : META
Reverse translation : (de Métaponte).

Historical background


LUCANIA - METAPONTUM

(470-350 BC)

Metaponte, an Achaean colony located in the Gulf of Taranto, is said to have been founded in 773 BC. First allied with the Sybarites and the Crotoniates, it then took possession of the territories of Siris. After the destruction of Sybaris by Crotone in 510 BC, the city welcomed Pythagoras. It played an important role until the end of the Punic Wars. This coinage was struck in 334 BC, at the time of the intervention of Alexander the Molossus, brother-in-law of Alexander the Great, who was called by the Tarentines to fight against the tribes of southern Italy . Alexander establishes a workshop in Métaponte. He died at the Battle of Pandosia in 330 BC fighting against the Lucanians and the Bruttians.

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