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Rhegion (Bruttium, Italy), Diobol (silver coin replica) 466 -
415 BC style.
OBV: Lion's scalp facing.
R: PH, Laur. hd. of Apollo r., olive leaf behind. Original doesn't
exists.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The ancient city of Rhegion
was one of the Magna Graecia colonies
founded by Calcidians in 730 BC.
Thucydides wrote that
before to found Rhegion, there was a consulting to the Delphi oracle, and then
the Messenes, coming from Messene in the Peloponnesos
participate to the foundation by order of Apollo and Artemis.
The city's contemporary
name is Reggio. |