Beautiful Double Nomos of Thourioi
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Lucania, Thurium (c.350-300 BC), Silver Double Nomos, 15.2g. Head of Athena facing right, wearing crested
Attic helmet decorated with Skylla, B behind neck guard. Rev.
ΘΥΡΙΩΝ
,
bull butting right, HPA above, two
fish (off flan) in exergue (Noe N6; HN Italy 1858). A lovely example of exceptionally fine style, struck on a
very broad flan, extremely fine.
Rare.
$ 15,000
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Lucania, Thurium (c.350-300 BC), Silver Double Nomos, 15.7g. Head of Athena facing right, wearing
crested Attic helmet decorated with Skylla hurling a stone. Rev.
[
Θ
]YPI
Ω
N
(P retrograde), bull
butting right, P (retrograde) -H below, torch in exergue (cf Noe N16; SNG ANS -; cf HN Italy 1861).
Extremely fine, light grey tone.
$ 2,500
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Bruttium, Medma (c.330-320 BC), Silver Stater, 8.5g. Pegasos flying left; no mint control. Rev. Head of
Athena facing left, wearing Corinthian helmet; no symbol or letters (Gorini grp. 1, unlisted dies; Pegasi 2;
cf HN Italy 2424-5 (control marks); SNG Lloyd 659). Extremely Fine.
Very rare.
$ 1,500
Calciati includes eleven coins in his corpus for which he could not identify the mint. Most, as is this coin, are uninscribed, but some have
symbols though he was unable to tie them to any particular mint. This coin has neither a mint control below Pegasos on the obverse or
any letters or symbols on the reverse. The style of Athena seems late, thus our dating to the final period of Pegasi in Greece.
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Bruttium, Rhegion (c.460-440 BC), Silver Litrai, 0.76g, 1h. Lion’s mask facing. Rev. RECI within wreath
(SNG ANS 651; Herzfelder 89, B). Broad flan and attractively toned, extremely fine.
$ 250
ex Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basle sale 68 (1986), lot 81
