Lot 4453

Description

Italy, Lucania, Thourioi (Thurium), (c.320 B.C.), AE 34, (40.46 g), obv. Head of Athena right, wearing crested helmet decorated with Skylla hurling a stone, rev. bull standing right, above **QOURIWN, DAMWN* below, (magistrate), serpent in exergue, (S.-, SNG ANS 1183, HN Italy 1916). Good very fine, mottled multicolor patina, obverse slightly double struck, light corrosion on crest, reverse fields tooled, a very rare and very heavy example of fine style.

Ex Decades Collection and CNG Auction Sale No.57, May 21, 2003 (lot 63) with ticket, coming from the John Bergman Collection CNG Auction Sale 57, 4 April 2001, (lot 55) and Numismatica Ars Classica 13, 8 November 1998, (lot 178).