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Lot 4930    Session 16 (9.30am Friday)    Greek Silver & Bronze

Estimate $2,500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $3,000

ITALY, Bruttium, Rhegion, (c.450 B.C. [Arnold-Biucchi chronology]), silver tetradrachm, (14.214 grams), obv. lion's head facing, within dotted border, rev. Iokastos the traditional founder of the city naked to waist and seated to left, holding staff and resting left hand on hip, all within laurel wreath, legend around anti-clockwise, RECI NOS (most letters are reversed), (S.498 [£1250], Herzfelder, H., 'Catalogue des Tetradrachmes et Drachmes de Rhegion' 6, [obv.D3, rev.R5 same dies], [Revue Numismatique (RN) 1956], Paris de Luynes 791 = Num. Chron, Pl.VIII, 2; Berlin example of similar weight). Interesting die break on the reverse, slightly off centred on the reverse otherwise good very fine/very fine, and very rare.

The reverse die shows a breaking up and a similar example with the same degree of die-breaking occurs on Plate I No.6 (th BM example) in RN 1956. Herzfelder in his extensive study on this coinage knew of 5 examples of this coin from these dies. Many of the examples known are in public collections. For all dies Herzfelder was only able to find 46 coins of this type together with the four from Randazzo make only 50 surviving examples today.

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