Lot 1601

Description

Italy, Campania, Hyria, (c.400-395 B.C.), silver didrachm or nomos, (7.14 grams), obv. head of helmeted Athena to right, crested helmet, with owl and wreath on helmet, rev. man-headed bull to left, above YDINAI, double exergue line, (cf.S.294 [Å“200], Rutter 89 [obv. die 35, rev. die 80, BMC 9 [same dies]). Toned, nearly very fine and very rare.

Only five examples are known from this die combination and these are all in Museum collections. Rutter in his 1979 exhaustive study of this mint knew of only 414 examples of this mint in all of the public and the published private collections. Almost all examples known from this mint are worn coins.