Lot 3252
Sale 72 · Important Australian, British & World Coins, Medals & Banknotes
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Description
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.
- Estimate
- $220
- Result Status
- Sold
- Prices Realised
- $160