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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Italy| > GI19440
Sybaris, Lucania, Italy, c. 550 - 510 B.C.
|Italy|, |Sybaris,| |Lucania,| |Italy,| |c.| |550| |-| |510| |B.C.|,
Sybaris was founded in 720 B.C. on the Gulf of Taranto by Achaean and Troezenian settlers between two rivers, the Crathis (Crati) and the Sybaris (Coscile). Sybaris amassed great wealth thanks to its fertile land and busy port. Its inhabitants became famous among the Greeks for their hedonism, feasts, and excesses, to the extent that "sybarite" and "sybaritic" have become bywords for opulent luxury and outrageous pleasure seeking. In 510 - 509 B.C. the city was subjugated by its neighbor Kroton and its population driven out. The city saw a total of five periods of occupation followed by expulsion. New settlers founded the city of Thurii in 444 - 443 BC, in part on top of the site of Sybaris. The ruins of Sybaris and Thurii were forgotten as they were buried over time by sediment from the Crati River. The ruins were rediscovered and excavated in the 1960s. Port facilities of Sybaris
GI19440. Silver nomos, SNG Cop 1388, SNG ANS 842, Dewing 407, HN Italy 1729, HGC I 1231 (S), gVF, Sybaris mint, weight 5.777g, maximum diameter 27.7mm, die axis 0o, c. 550 - 510 B.C.; obverse bull standing left, head turned right, VM in ex, dotted border between two circles; reverse incuse of obverse (but no legend); scarce; SOLD











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