Lot 1788

Description

Italy, Lucanaia, Poseidonia, (c.480-450 B.C.), silver nomos, stater or didrachm, (7.58 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.