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| Issuer | Rhegion |
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| Year | 260 BC - 215 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | Lion walking to right, depicted with powerful musculature, head lowered and turned slightly forward, set upon a ground line. The ethnic legend ΡΗΓΙ-ΝΩΝ is divided between the upper field above the animal and the exergue below, identifying the issuing city of Rhegion. The composition is characteristic of the Bruttian coinage tradition, with the lion rendered in vigorous Hellenistic style. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΡΗΓΙ ΝΩΝ |
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Rhegion's bronze coinage of this period was struck under conditions of sustained political anxiety. The city had been refounded by Campanian mercenaries — briefly and brutally — before Roman intervention restored it in 270 BC, and the civic identity embedded in the subsequent bronze issues reflects a community reasserting itself after a massacre of its own garrison. Production continued as Hannibal's campaigns brought southern Italy into crisis after 218 BC, though Rhegion's position at the straits kept it more insulated than most.
HN Italy 2544 groups a cluster of related dies across a broad span, and individual specimens can be difficult to pin within the series without reference to the SNG ANS plates.