Ancient Gold - Byzantine
Lot 1961 SESSION 11 (7.30PM WEDNESDAY 26TH NOVEMBER) Ancient Gold - Byzantine
Estimate $250
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ITALY, Lucania, Thurium (Thourioi), (425 - 400 B.C.), silver sixth stater or triobol, (1.15 g), obv. head of Athena to right wearing crested Athenian helmet, rev. bull butting to left, in exergue, **QOURI[WN]* in exergue a tunny fish to right, plain exergual line, (S.438, BMC 21, SNG Munich 1178). Extremely fine and very rare as such.
Ex Anthony "Tony" Taylor Collection.^Noble Numismatics Sale 124, lot 2946. Previously the George Mihailuk Collection, from H. Larkin in the 1960s.
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