bgr_767286 - LUCANIA - METAPONTUM Obole
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Price : 125.00 €
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Price : 125.00 €
Type : Obole
Date: c. 420-350 AC.
Mint name / Town : Métaponte, Lucanie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 7,44 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale, centré. Joli revers, bien venu à la frappe. Présence de concrétions au droit. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : O/ EY.
Obverse description : Hermès nu, le manteau sur l’épaule debout à gauche, coiffé du pétase, tenant une patère de la main droite au-dessus d’un thymiaterion et un caducée de la main gauche.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ME.
Reverse description : Épi de blé sur sa tige.
Reverse legend : OBOLOU
Reverse translation : (Obole).
Commentary
Ce type est l’n des plus anciens pour le bronze du monnayage métapontin. Il se rencontre dans le trésor de Bernalda (IGCH. 1935) trouvé en 1940 et enfoui entre 325-300 avant J.-C. et qui contenait 33 monnaies dont treize de notre type.
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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