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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Italy| > SH79834
Neapolis, Campania, Italy, 320 - 300 B.C.
|Italy|, |Neapolis,| |Campania,| |Italy,| |320| |-| |300| |B.C.|, Naples is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Bronze Age Greek settlements were established in the second millennium B.C. The city was refounded as Neapolis in the sixth century B.C. and became an important hub of Magna Graecia, playing a key role in the merging of Greek culture into Roman society. Naples remained influential under Rome and more so after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, serving as the capital city of the Kingdom of Naples between 1282 and 1816. Thereafter, it became the capital of the Two Sicilies until the unification of Italy in 1861.
SH79834. Silver didrachm, SNG ANS 325; Sambon 450; BMC Italy p. 99, 53; Head HN 571; HGC 1 451 (R1); SNG Cop -; SNG Munchen -, VF, finest style, well centered and struck on a tight flan, toned, scratches and bumps, small edge splits, Neapolis (Naples, Italy) mint, weight 7.252g, maximum diameter 18.9mm, die axis 180o, magistrate Olympios, 320 - 300 B.C.; obverse diademed head of siren Parthenope right, wearing pendant earring and pearl necklace, no legends or symbols; reverse river-god Achelous in the form of a man-faced bull walking right, head turned facing, Nike above flying right and placing wreath on bull's head, OΛ-YM-ΠI below, NEOΠOΛITHΣ exergue; ex Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, auction 216 (8 Oct 2012), lot 48; rare; SOLD










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Imhoof-Blumer, F. “Nymphen und Chariten auf griechischen Münzen” in JIAN 11 (1908).

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