bgr_1024085 - MACEDONIA - PAROREIA Bronze
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Type : Bronze
Date: c. 185-168 AC
Mint name / Town : Macédoine, Paroreia
Metal : bronze or copper
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,86 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Métal piqué. Joli revers. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Zeus à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : MONOGRAMME.
Reverse description : Aigle debout à droite.
Reverse legend : NK/ PAR
Historical background
MACEDONIA - PAROREIA
(185-168 BC)
We have very little information about Paroreia. Pliny the Elder (HN.4/35) evokes a people from Epirus or Macedonia (Paroræi). Paroreia is also mentioned by Livy in Roman History (39/27 and 42/51) (Paroreia) as a part of Thrace or a neighboring country of Thrace. In fact, this city of Macedonia has sometimes been confused with Parorea, city of Achaia, about their inhabitants, by Pliny the Elder (HN.4/22). The autonomous coinage of the city seems to have started after the battle of Cynoscephali (197 AC.) and the proclamation of the freedom of the Greek cities by Flaminius in Corinth the following year. The coinage does not seem to have survived the fall of the Macedonian kingdom after Pydna in 168 BC..
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