MONNAIES 49 (2011)
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Demi-unité, (PB, Æ 15)
Date: c. 225-220 AC.
Mint name / Town : Lucanie, Thurium
Metal : copper
Diameter : 14,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,07 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec une petite paille de métal. Beau portrait d’Apollon. Très joli revers de style fin et de haut relief. Très jolie patine vert foncé et marron
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de Claude Silberstein (1993)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Apollon à droite avec les cheveux courts.
Obverse translation : (Thouria).
Reverse
Reverse description : Cheval libre bondissant à droite.
Reverse legend : QOU/ (AS)
Reverse translation : (Thurium).
Commentary
Le monogramme sous le cheval avait été mal interprété et lu comme (AP) mais il s’agit bien d’un monogramme (AS) comme le signale déjà Montenegro.
The monogram under the horse had been misinterpreted and read as (AP) but it is indeed a monogram (AS) as Montenegro already points out
The monogram under the horse had been misinterpreted and read as (AP) but it is indeed a monogram (AS) as Montenegro already points out
Historical background
LUCANIA - THOURIOI
(268-194 BC)
Thurium, 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. It was refounded in 194 BC under the name of Copia by the Romans.
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