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Lot 1785    Session 6 (9.30am Thursday)    Greek Silver & Bronze

Estimate $250
Bid at live.noble.com.au

ITALY, Lucanaia, Poseidonia, (c.480-450 B.C.), silver stater or didrachm, (7.796 grams), obv. Poseidon, naked but for chlamys over shoulder, advancing brandishing trident, [**POMES], rev. bull walking to left, all within shallow incuse square, above **EMOP (retrograde), (cf. S.424, SNG Cop.1278-9, SNG ANS 652). Fine/very fine, and very scarce.

The use of reversed legends appears on a number of these coins from this city.

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