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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Italy| > GS88981
Neapolis, Campania, Italy, c. 300 - 275 B.C.
|Italy|, |Neapolis,| |Campania,| |Italy,| |c.| |300| |-| |275| |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.
GS88981. Silver didrachm, cf. SNG ANS I 345; SNG Cop 417; BMC Italy p. 99, 58; Weber I 333; Sambon p. 227, 463; McClean 265; HN Italy 579; HGC I 453 (S), F, attractive style, even wear - nice for the grade, light bumps and marks, irregular flan shape with edge split, Neapolis (Naples, Italy) mint, weight 6.921g, maximum diameter 21.0mm, die axis 0o, c. 300 - 275 B.C.; obverse diademed head of the siren Parthenope right, wearing large pendant earring and pearl necklace, astragalus (control symbol) behind neck, APTE[MI?] (master engraver or magistrate) below neck truncation; reverse river-god Acheloios Sebethos as a man-faced bull standing right, head turned facing, Nike above flying right and placing wreath on bull's head, ΘΕ below, NEOΠOΛITΩN in exergue (off flan); ex Ancient Imports (Marc Breitsprecher); scarce; SOLD











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