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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Italy| > SH15423
Kroton, Bruttium, c. 350 - 340 B.C.
|Italy|, |Kroton,| |Bruttium,| |c.| |350| |-| |340| |B.C.|, In 295 B.C., Kroton fell to another Syracusan tyrant, Agathocles. When Pyrrhus invaded Italy in 280 B.C., it was still a considerable city, with twelve miles (19 km) of walls, but after the Pyrrhic War, half the town was deserted (Livy 24.3). What was left of its population submitted to Rome in 277 B.C. After the Battle of Cannae in the Second Punic War, Hannibal made it his winter quarters for three years and the city was not recaptured until 205 or 204 B.C. In 194 B.C., it became the site of a Roman colony. Little more is heard of it during the Republican and Imperial periods.
SH15423. Silver nomos, SNG ANS 379 (same dies), Head HN 2160, VF, Kroton (Crotone, Calabria, Italy) mint, weight 7.053g, maximum diameter 20.5mm, die axis 90o, c. 350 - 340 B.C.; obverse head of Hera Lakinia facing, wearing stephane; reverse Herakles seated left on lion-skin, holding cup in extended right; above, bow, quiver and club; attractive high relief obverse and nicely toned; SOLD











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