Greek Silver & Bronze
Lot 3128 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $300
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ITALY, Campania, Hyria, (c.395-385 B.C.), silver stater or nomos, (7.214 grams), obv. head of helmeted Athena to left, crested helmet, with owl and wreath on helmet, **G* behind neck, obv. man-headed bull to right, above [YD]INAI**S*, single exergue line, (cf.S.294 [£200], Rutter 122 [obv. die 46, rev. die 108], BMC 12 [same dies], Weber 318 [same dies]). Struck from a worn obverse die, otherwise good 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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