Ancient Gold - Byzantine
Lot 1960 SESSION 11 (7.30PM WEDNESDAY 26TH NOVEMBER) Ancient Gold - Byzantine
Estimate $150
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LUCANIA, Sybaris, (453-448 B.C.), silver twelfth stater or obol, 7mm, (0.48 g), obv. Poseidon advancing right, wearing chlamys, brandishing trident, rev. bull standing right, MVB above, (cf.S.431, cf.SNG ANS 871, cf.HN Italy 1749). Fine and rare.
Ex Anthony "Tony" Taylor Collection.^Noble Numismatics Sale 129, lot 3133. From the Dr L.J. Sherwin Collection, previously from M.R. Roberts.^^Apparently an unrecorded denomination for this type.
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