Greek Silver & Bronze
Lot 3127 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $180
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ITALY, Campania, Hyria, (c.400-395 B.C.), silver stater or nomos, (6.838 grams), obv. head of helmeted Athena to right, crested helmet, with owl and wreath on helmet, rev. man-headed bull to left, above [Y]DINAI, single exergue line, (cf.S.294 [£200], Rutter 85 [obv. die 35, rev. die 79]). Struck from a worn obverse die, otherwise fine and very rare.
Only five examples are known from this die combination and these are nearly all in Museum collections.
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