Greek Silver & Bronze
Lot 3199 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $150
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $170
ITALY, Lucania, Poseidonia, (c.480-450 B.C.), silver stater or nomos, (7.58 grams), obv. Poseidon, naked but for chlamys over shoulder, advancing brandishing trident, [**POMES], rev. bull walking to left, all within shallow incuse square, above **EMOP (retrograde), (cf. S.424, SNG Cop.1278-9, SNG ANS 652). Fine/very fine, and very scarce.
Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 67 (lot 1626). The use of reversed legends appears on several of these coins from this city.
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