Greek Silver & Bronze
Lot 1600 Session 6 (9.30am Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $350
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SOLD $270
ITALY, Campania, Hyria, (c.405-400 B.C.), silver didrachm or nomos, (7.11 grams), obv. head of helmeted Athena to left, crested helmet, with owl and wreath on helmet, rev. man-headed bull to right, above YDINAI (retrograde), single exergue line, (cf.S.294 [Å“200], Rutter 39 [obv. die 26, rev. die 33], Sambon 779b, SNG Ash 61-2 [same obverse die]). Toned, nearly very fine and very rare.
Only four examples are known from this die combination and these are all in Italian Museum collections. Rutter in his 1979 exhaustive study of this mint knew of only 414 examples of this mint in all of the public and the published private collections. Almost all examples known from this mint are worn coins.
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