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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Italy| > GI73182
Rhegion, Bruttium, 260 - 218 B.C.
|Italy|, |Rhegion,| |Bruttium,| |260| |-| |218| |B.C.|, Rhegion reached great artistic and cultural heights. It was home to academies, such as the Pythagorean School, and to well-known poets, historians and sculptors such as Ibycus, Ippy, and Pythagoras. It was an important ally of the Roman Republic. Rhegium flourished during the Imperial Age but was devastated by several major earthquakes and tsunami. St. Paul passed through Rhegium on his final voyage to Rome (Acts XXVIII:13).
GI73182. Bronze obol, SNG ANS 729 (same dies); BMC Italy p. 381, 85 (also five strings); SNG Cop 1963; SNG Morcom 479; Lindgren II 378; HN Italy 2546, VF, green patina, corrosion, marks, a little rough, Rhegion (Reggio, Calabria) mint, weight 7.401g, maximum diameter 23.1mm, die axis 135o, 260 - 218 B.C.; obverse head of Artemis right, wearing diadem, bow and quiver over shoulder; reverse lyre with five strings, ΠΗΓI-NΩN flanking in two upward lines on left and right; scarce; SOLD











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