Drachm

Features

Issuer	Brettii (Bruttium)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	213 BC - 205 BC
Value	½ Gold Stater (10)
Currency	Drachma poddasza
Composition	Złoto
Weight	4.2 g
Diameter	17 mm
Shape	Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique	Młotkowana
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 432853
References	HN Italy# 1950 Neville Keith Rutter, Andrew Burnett; 2001. Historia numorum: Italy. British Museum, London, United Kingdom. , Scheu# G6 Frederick Scheu; 1962. “Silver and Gold Coins of the Bruttians”, The Numismatic Chronicle, Series 7, Volume 2, pages 43-63. , SNG ANS 3# 14 Hyla A. Troxell; 1975. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Collection of the American Numismatic Society / Part 3. Bruttium-Sicily 1 (Abacaenum-Eryx). American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States.

Obverse

Brodata głowa Posejdona w lewo, ubrana w taenia, trójząb z tyłu; delfin poniżej. Automatically translated

Reverse

(en) Hippocamp right on which Amphitrite is seated left, holding Eros in extended right hand, who stands left drawing a bow; in right field murex.

Script: grecki

Lettering:
BPETTIΩN
Γ

Mint

Brucjowie, Italy

Comments

(fr)

Comment from CNG: “Inspired by the Pyrrhic silver prototype depicting the sea-nymph Thetis on a hippocamp as she contemplates the shield of her son Achilles, this Bruttian creation pairs Poseidon on the obverse with his consort Amphitrite and substitutes an Eros for the shield. In early literature this piece was dated to around 282 BC since it copied the main theme of a Pyrrhic type, but later study has placed this issue in the Second Punic War as it shares the engraver's mark Γ with certain Carthaginian silver issues.”

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (213 BC - 205 BC)

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