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Diobol
| Uitgever | Kroton |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 300 BC - 250 BC |
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| Waarde | Diobol (⅓) |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | An owl stands facing left with wings folded and head turned to face the viewer frontally, rendered in the compact, stylised manner typical of South Italian coinages of this period. The bird's large circular eye is prominently modelled. Two koppa symbols (ϘϘ) appear to the upper left and a single koppa (Ϙ) to the right, serving as ethnic abbreviations for Kroton (ϘΡΟΤΩΝ) in archaic Greek script. The design is set within the irregular flan, with the incuse characteristics of hammered production visible. |
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| Opschrift keerzijde | ϘϘ Ϙ |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Kroton, the powerful Achaean colony on the toe of Italy, was in steep decline by this period. The city had never recovered from its catastrophic defeat by the Lucanians at the Laos River around 390 BC, and by the mid-third century it was increasingly absorbed into the orbit of Roman expansion. Small silver fractions like this diobol likely circulated in a local economy already stressed by decades of Bruttian pressure and the shifting alliances of the Pyrrhic War.
The absence of an HN Italy reference number suggests this type remains either unattributed to a specific die study or incompletely catalogued — not unusual for the minor fractional silver of Magna Graecia.