Greek Silver & Bronze
Lot 1709 Session 6 (9.30am Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $180
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ITALY, Campania, Hyria, (c.400-395 B.C.), silver stater or nomos, (6.891 grams), obv. head of helmeted Athena to right, crested helmet, with owl and wreath on helmet, rev. man-headed bull to left, above [Y]DINA, double exergue line, (cf.S.294 [£200], Rutter 98 [obv. die 35, rev. die 86]). Struck from a worn obverse die, reverse slightly off centre, otherwise nearly fine and very rare.
Only two examples are known from this die combination and these are in the Naples Museum collection.
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