Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 4122 Session 13 (2.30pm Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $400
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ITALY, Bruttium, Kroton (Croton), (420-390 B.C.), silver stater or didrachm (7.73 g), 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 breaks, nearly very fine/fine and rare.
It should be noted that this issue marks the transition of the K in the city name replacing the archaic letter Q (Koppa).
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