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Auction: 24005 - The Official Coinex Auction of Ancient, British and World Coins
Lot: 173

NGC XF | Lucania, Thuria, AR Nomos, c. 360 BC, signed by Molossos, head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet, decorated with Scylla hurling a stone, with a tiny owl on the crown of the helmet and an M on the neckflap, rev. THOURIO[Y], bull butting right, MOLOSSOS (signature of engraver) below, tunny fish right in exergue, 8.05g (SNG ANS 1026; SNG Copenhagen 1433; HN Italy 1784; Robinson, W.H. Woodward catalogue, 33, this coin), flan slightly short, otherwise detailed and struck in high relief, very rare and good very fine, with excellent pedigree

Provenance

The "Estafefette No. 21" Collection of Ancient, English and World Coins

Spink, 9 October 1985, lot 16

Sotheby's, 22 April 1970, lot 27

W H Woodward, Ars Clasica XV, 2 July 1930, lot 202

P Mathey, Feuardent Frères, Monnaies grecques antiques provenant en majeure partie de la collection d 'un artiste français, 9-10 June 1913, lot 43


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