Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 3566 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $1,250
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ITALY, Lucania, Velia, (c.300-280 B.C.), silvered fourree nomos (6.59 g), Philistion group, obv. Head of Athena to right, wearing helmet decorated with laurel wreath and wing, monogram behind neck guard, **F* below chin, rev. lion standing right, above a grain ear between **F* and I, in exergue **QOURIWN*, (S.460, Williams +489, 7 (This Coin), HN Italy 1309). Good very fine, light grey patination, some very minor light scratches under tone on obverse, small break in the plating above lion, rare.
Ex Hagen Tronnier Collection, Kunker Sale 94, 27 September 2004, (lot 172), previously from Peus Sale 267, 12 October 1967, (lot 6).
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