Greek Silver & Bronze
Lot 4540 Session 15 (7.30pm Friday) Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $400
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ITALY, Bruttium, Croton (Kroton), (420-390 B.C.), silver stater or didrachm (7.73 grams), obv. eagle standing to left, on olive-branch, head raised and flapping its wings, rev. tripod-lebes with neck and three handles, KPO to left, in field to right heron over **D*, (S.472, SNG ANS 366/369 same dies). Distinctive obverse and reverse die cracks, nearly very fine/fine and rare.
It should be noted that it was with this issue that the transition took place with the K in the city name replacing the archaic letter Q (Koppa).
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