Lot 1737

Sale 60 · An Important Collection of Australian Banknotes, Australian & World Coins

Description

Italy, Campania, Hyria, (c.400-395 B.C.), silver stater or nomos, (6.891 grams), obv. head of helmeted Athena to right, crested helmet, with owl and wreath on helmet, rev. man-headed bull to left, above [Y]DINA, double exergue line, (cf.S.294 [£200], Rutter 98 [obv. die 35, rev. die 86]). Struck from a worn obverse die, reverse slightly off centre, otherwise nearly fine and very rare.

See note above. Only two examples are known from this die combination and these are in the Naples Museum collection.

Estimate
$200
Result Status
Sold
Prices Realised
$0