bgr_649009 - SICILY - TAUROMENIUM Litra
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Price : 100.00 €
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Price : 100.00 €
Type : Litra
Date: c. 212 AC.
Mint name / Town : Tauromenium, Sicile
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 9,52 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire centré. Usure importante mais régulière. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée d’Athéna à gauche coiffée du casque corinthien à triple aigrette ; derrière la tête, un oiseau ; grènetis circulaire.
Reverse
Reverse description : Pégase s’envolant à gauche ; grènetis circulaire.
Reverse legend : TAUROMENEI-TA-N
Reverse translation : (de Tauromenium).
Commentary
Pour ce type, G. Buceti a recensé trente-et-un exemplaires avec des poids compris entre 5,30 g et 10,10 g. Néanmoins, ce type avec la tête casquée à gauche semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
For this type, G. Buceti recorded thirty-one examples with weights between 5.30 g and 10.10 g. However, this type with the helmeted head on the left seems rarer than general works suggest.
For this type, G. Buceti recorded thirty-one examples with weights between 5.30 g and 10.10 g. However, this type with the helmeted head on the left seems rarer than general works suggest.
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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