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Drachm
| Uitgever | Kroton |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 530 BC - 500 BC |
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| Waarde | Drachm (1) |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Incuse tripod design mirroring the obverse type, depicted in sunken relief as characteristic of early South Italian coinage. The tripod is shown with its cauldron, ring handles at the upper rim, and three prominent legs converging to a ground line, the central shaft bearing two pellets. The entire composition is set within a broad, finely striated incuse square border, presenting the hallmark incuse technique associated with the Pythagorean cities of Magna Graecia. |
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| Opschrift keerzijde | ϘΡΟ |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Kroton, the Achaean Greek colony on the toe of Italy, was among the earliest western mints to adopt coinage, and its issues from this period reflect direct influence from the incuse technique pioneered — or at least systematized — across Magna Graecia around 550 BC. The incuse style, in which the reverse carries a sunken mirror image of the obverse type, is almost exclusively a southern Italian phenomenon; no mainland Greek mint used it with any consistency.
Kroton's late sixth-century output coincides with the city's period of maximum political and athletic prestige, before its catastrophic destruction of Sybaris in 510 BC reshuffled regional power.