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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 8130639, member: 87809&quot;]Æ27 also with an eagle:</p><p><br /></p><p>27 mm, 11.480 g</p><p>Bruttium, Lokroi Epizephrioi, after 280 BC, ca 280 -268 BC</p><p><br /></p><p>Epizephyrian Locris (from Greek Επιζεφύριοι Λοκροί - epi-Zephyros, &quot;under the West Wind&quot;) was founded about 680 BC on the Italian shore of the Ionian Sea, near modern Capo Zefirio. Locris was the site of two great sanctuaries, that of Persephone — worshipped as the protector of fertile marriage — and of Aphrodite. Plato called it &quot;The flower of Italy&quot;, due to the local peoples&#039; characteristics.The city was abandoned in the fifth century AD. The town was finally destroyed by the Saracens in 915. The survivors fled inland about 10 km to the town Gerace on the slopes of the Aspromonte.</p><p><br /></p><p>SNG ANS 560-561; Rutter, HN Italy 2374; SNG Copenhagen 1881; SNG München 1513; Historia Numorum 2374; SNG Morcom 436</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Diademed head of Persephone r. long torch behind</p><p>Rev.: Λ(O)KPΩN left. Eagle standing l. wings closed, on thunderbolt, monogram before, palm-branch behind</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1416253[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1416254[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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