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bgr_512584 - SICILY - TAUROMENIUM Drachme

SICILY - TAUROMENIUM Drachme VF
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Price : 320.00 €
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 344-336 AC.
Mint name / Town : Tauromenium, Sicile
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30 mm
Weight : 29,01 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et épais bien centré à l’usure très importante, lisible et identifiable. Patine marron foncé

Obverse


Obverse description : Taureau chargeant à gauche.
Obverse legend : (TA)
Obverse translation : (Tauromenion).

Reverse


Reverse description : Astre à seize rais dans un cercle linéaire.

Commentary


Ce type monétaire est frappé à l’instigation des mercenaires campaniens. O. Hoover a relevé des poids compris entre 28,27 g et 32,37 g. Pour cette série Castrizio n’avait recensé que sept exemplaires avec un coin de droit et un coin de revers. Semble surfrappé sur un type plus ancien au revers. Quant à G. Buceti, il a recensé vingt-quatre exemplaires avec des poids compris etre 21,23 et 37,05 g.
This monetary type is minted at the instigation of Campanian mercenaries. O. Hoover recorded weights between 28.27 g and 32.37 g. For this series Castrizio had identified only seven examples with a right die and a reverse die. Appears to be overstruck on an older type on the reverse. As for G. Buceti, he identified twenty-four examples with weights between 21.23 and 37.05 g

Historical background


SICILY - TAUROMENIUM

(4th - 3rd century BC)

Tauromenium, located near Mount Taurus, near ancient Naxos, was a Siceliot fortress built in 396 BC. Exiled Naxians settled there in 358 BC. The city then became important. Andromache, his protector, supported Timoléon in his conquest of Sicily. The city after falling under Syracusan domination passed under the control of Rome after 212 BC to become the city of Taormina.

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