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1509 Lucania, Thourion. Silver Nomos (7.82 g), ca. 443-400 BC
. Head of Athena right, wearing Attic helmet decorated with laurel wreath.
Reverse:
, bull butting left; below, E; in exergue, fish right. SNG ANS 943 (same dies); HN Italy 1761. Old cabinet toning.
Superb
Extremely Fine
.
Estimate Value .......................................................................................................................................................................$2,000 - 2,500
From the Herbert & Aphrodite Rubin Collection; Ex Stack' s (14 September 1983), 21.
Thourion was a colony of panhellenic settlers under Athenian leadership founded near the site of the destroyed city of Sybaris in southern Italy in
446/3 BC. It took its name from a local spring called Thouria and included both the famous historian Herodotos and the orator Lysias among its
early colonists. The depiction of Athena on this coin alludes to the Athenian impetus for the colony while the bull serves to personify the rushing
waters of Thouria.
1510
Lucania, Thourion. Silver Nomos (6.67 g), ca. 443-400
BC
. Head of Athena right, wearing Attic helmet decorated with
laurel wreath.
Reverse:
[
], bull walking left, head low-
ered; below,
; in exergue, fish left. SNG ANS 885-9; HN Italy
1760. Uniform old cabinet toning.
Choice Very Fine
.
Estimate Value ..................................................... $500 - 600
1511
Lucania, Thourion. Silver Double Nomos (15.23 g), ca.
400-350 BC
. Head of Athena right, wearing Attic helmet deco-
rated with Skylla; behind neckguard,
.
Reverse:
,
bull butting right; in exergue, fish right. Noe F30c (this coin);
SNG Lockett 373 (same dies); HN Italy 1805. Toned.
Very
Fine
.
Estimate Value ................................................$1,500 - 2,000
The Hanbery Collection; Purchased privately from F. Kovacs in
1995. Ex Dr. Frank J. Novak Collection (CNG XXXII, 7 December
1994), 85; Otto Collection (Hess 207, 1931), 77; Seaby (1927),
540; Ratto (1926), 548.
1512
Lucania, Thourion. Silver Nomos (7.56 g), ca. 400-350
BC
. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet deco-
rated with Skylla holding trident.
Reverse:
, bull butt-
ing right; in exergue, fish right. SNG ANS 1002-3; HN Italy
1801. Some graffiti (' T
I') noted above bull. Lightly toned.
Very Fine
.
Estimate Value ......................................................$300 - 350
The Hanbery Collection; Purchased privately from Frank Kovacs
in the 1970s.