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| Issuer | Sybaris |
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| Year | 453 BC - 400 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bull standing to left in profile, rendered in high relief with naturalistic musculature, the animal depicted walking with head slightly lowered. A ground line runs beneath the figure. The field is plain and unadorned, consistent with the archaic coinage tradition of the Sybarite mint. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Sybaris was destroyed by Kroton in 510 BC, its population drowned in the diverted river Krathis. The city refounded on or near the same site — typically called Sybaris-on-the-Traeis or simply the later Sybaris — made several attempts at revival before Thurii was established there in 444/3 BC with Athenian backing, effectively absorbing whatever remained of the Sybarite population. Coinage attributed to this post-destruction Sybaris is poorly documented and chronologically difficult; the HN Italy gap in the reference field is telling. These issues likely circulated within a narrow geographic pocket for a very short window before Thurioi's mint superseded them entirely.