
Kroton in Bruttium. ca. 480 to 420 BC.
Silver stater
Denomination: Silver stater.
Mint: Kroton.
Date: ca. 480 to 420 BC.
Size: 19.0 x 20.0 mm Weight: 7.73 grams.
Reference: Sear-466 variety. SNG
ANS 314
Grade: VF.
Obverse: Delphic tripod with three handles, with a
stork to the left, with an inscription to the right naming the
city as "KAPPA" RO (I cannot show a Greek
letter Kappa on the fonts available here).
Reverse: Delphic tripod shown incuse.
SOLD
Order
# 3336
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Syracuse in Sicily. ca. 485 to 479 BC.
Silver tetradrachm
Denomination: silver tetradrachm.
Mint: Syracuse.
Date: Time of Gelon, 485 to 479 BC.
Size: 22.9 x 24.3 mm Weight: 17.2 grams.
Reference: Sear-913.
Grade: gVF to aXF, with good metal and a slightly
larger
than average flan (about 1 mm larger) which allows for nearly the
entire obverse design to be visible (at least more than you
usually
get). There is a very small corrosiion spot on the horse's
shoulder,
but it is very minor.
Obverse: Quadriga driven right by a male charioteer
holding a goad, with a small figure of Nike flying above.
Reverse: Head of Artemis-Arethusa right, with
four dolphines around, with SURAKOSION
to the right and below.
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Taras
in Calabria, ca. 302 to 281 BC.
Silver didrachm. Campano-Tarentine type. RARE.
Taras is in Calabria in southern Italy, and is also
known as
Tarentum. This particular coin is from what is known as the
Campano-Tarentin type, because the obverse is based on the coins of
Neapolis in Campania, while the reverse is a Taras type, with an ethnic
that states the coin was issued from Taras. This suggest that it
was
struck during a period of alliance between the two cities. A
search of
the first 500 coins of Taras in coin archieves did not turn up a single
one of these, suggesting it must be a fairly rare type.
Denomination: Silver didrachm (sometimes called a
Nomos).
Date: 302 to 281 BC.
Size: 18.9 x 19.9 mm, Weight: 7.02
grams.
Reference: Sear-366 variety. Vlasto #1031 to
1035.
Grade: VF but slightly off-centre. Nice old toning.
Obverse: Head of a Nymph left.
Reverse: Youth seated on a horse standing right,
holding a
wreath over the horse's head, with a rhyton below the horse, and a
dolphin in front, with TA behind
the rider.
For reasons I do not understand, it has become
fashionable to call
this coin denomination of nomos. The Greek word "nomos"
appears to
simply mean "acceptable currency" and is more an accounting term
than the name of a specific coin type.
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Order
# 3344
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Kaulonia
in Bruttium. ca. 475 to 425 BC.
Silver stater (Nomos)
Denomination: Silver stater (nomos).
Mint: Kaulonia.
Date: ca. 475 to 425 BC.
Size: 19.3 x 20.8 mm Weight: 8.08 grams.
Reference: Sear-462. HN Italy 2046.
Grade: gVF with a nice strike and reasonably
well-centred for the issue.
Obverse: Apollo walking right holding a
laurel-branch, with
a small figure standing on his arm (the small figure is not visible),
with a small stag standing in the right field, with a retrograde KAVL to the
left of Apollo.
There
are many small raised marks in the obverse field, which had to have
been on the die and are intentional (and occur on many coins of this
type).
Reverse: A stag standing right with a sapling
growing in the right field, with a retrograde KAVL above the stag's back.
This
type is rather odd in that the ethnic for the city occurs on both the
obverse and reverse dies, but for some reason the early coins of this
city often show this.
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