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| Issuer | Rhegion (Bruttium) |
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| Year | 280 BC - 260 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing left, rendered in the Hellenistic style with wavy hair bound by a laurel wreath. The portraiture is executed with confident, plastic modeling characteristic of South Italian die-cutting of the early third century BC. A legend in Greek characters appears in the field, attributing the issue to the citizens of Rhegion. The flan is irregular, consistent with hand-hammered bronze coinage of the period. |
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| Mint | Rhegion (modern Reggio Calabria, Italy) |
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Rhegion's bronze coinage of this period reflects the city's precarious position during the Pyrrhic War and its turbulent aftermath. The city had allied with Rome, and in 280 BC a Campanian garrison — sent ostensibly as protection — massacred much of the male population and seized control of the town. Rome eventually retook Rhegion in 270 BC and executed the surviving mutineers in the Forum. Bronze issues struck across this span may have circulated under either the legitimate civic authority or the usurping garrison, a distinction the coins themselves cannot resolve.