Selected Coins of Italy
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Italian Coin GAE739
Bruttium Lokri Epizephroi ca. 330BC
AE 21.9-25.0mm : 12.04gm : 7h
OBV - Laureate Zeus facing right
REV - Closed-wing eagle facing left
REF - BMC 1,21 Rutter 2352, ANS532-9, Sear 665
NOTE - According to B. V. Head (Historia Numorum, 1911 edition) this is the first bronze issue of Lokri Epizephroi.
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Italian Coin GAE267
Bruttium Rhegion Brettii ca. 215BC
AE 21.7-22.9mm : 7.402gm : 6h
OBV - Laureate Zeus facing right
REV - Eagle with open wing standing on thunderbolt facing left with cornucopia at left of eagle and star above
REF - SNGANS 50 SNGANS 44; SNGCOP 1663; Scheu 13 - 6h
NOTE - Derivative style of Syracusan Ptolemaic imitations and Ptolemaic types. Overstruck on unidentified earlier coin (partial border and inscription visible at edge of obverse).
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Italian Coin GAG003
Lucania Velia Didrachm/Stater 350/330BC
AG 19.5-20.3mm : 7.576gm
OBV - Head of Athena facing right, wearing Attic helmet decorated with griffin, THETA behind neck
REV - Lion prowling to right with THETA under lion body, YELHTON in exergue
REF - SNGANS 1308
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Italian Coin GAG004
Lucania Thourium Stater 400/350BC
AG 20.4mm-20.9 : 7.638gm
OBV - Head of Athena facing right, wearing Attic helmet decorated with Scylla hurling spear
REV - Bull butting or charging to right with one leg raised, pellet below bull front leg, THOYRION above, tunny fish in exergue
REF - HN Italy 1791; McClean 1286
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Italian Coin GAG005
Lucania Thourium Stater 400/350BC
AG 18.9-19.5mm : 7.620gm
OBV - Head of Athena facing right, wearing Attic helmet decorated with Hippocamp
REV - Bull walking to left, cone below bull, THOYRION above, tunny fish in exergue
REF - Similar reverse to SNGANS 878, 879, but different obverse type - this coin with hippocamp instead of olive wreath or Scylla on helmet. Rare variant? Hippocamp is mentioned in Historia Numorum (1911 edition, page 86) but not shown on Wildwinds presentation. On this reverse the bull is walking left with all four legs on the ground, not butting or charging as above.
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