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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Italy| > GI79581
Rhegion, Bruttium, Italy, c. 215 - 150 B.C.
|Italy|, |Rhegion,| |Bruttium,| |Italy,| |c.| |215| |-| |150| |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).
GI79581. Bronze triens, HN Italy 2557; SNG ANS 766; SNG Cop 1981; SNG Munchen 1710; BMC Italy p. 384, 105, aF, rough, weak reverse strike, Rhegion (Reggio, Calabria, Italy) mint, weight 3.330g, maximum diameter 17.7mm, die axis 0o, Second Punic War, c. 211 - 201 B.C.; obverse jugate heads of the Dioskouroi right, wearing pilei and laurel wreaths, two stars above; reverse Demeter standing facing, head left, two stalks of grain in right hand, long torch vertical in left hand, crescent over IIII (mark of value) on left, PHΓINΩN downward on right; ex John Jencek; SOLD











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