Gemini III, January 9th, 2007



                  Lot # 42Estimate: US$2500
                  LUCANIA. Thurium. Silver stater 



             



            LUCANIA. Thurium. Ca. 443-400 BC. Silver stater (8.07 gm). Head of 
            Athena right in crested Attic helmet adorned with olive wreath, Ö 
            before head / ÈOÕÑIÙN, bull with lowered head walking left on double 
            exergual line, Ö on rump, bird with open wings alighting left 
            beneath bull, tunny fish left in exergue. SNG ANS 948 (same obverse 
            die). HN Italy 1772. Signed thrice by Phrygillos. Obverse in high 
            relief, slightly double struck. Very top of bull’s head off flan. 
            Toned. Nearly mint state. 

            In his 1949 publication, Masterpieces of Greek Coinage, Charles 
            Seltman noted three signatures for the artist Phrygillos on this 
            issue (no. 26); two in the form of the letter “Ö” and the third in 
            the form of the finch, which is phrygillos in Greek. 






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  ... Lot 42 sold for high bid of $3400 [ $3910, or approx 3022.43 EUR, 1994.1 GBP including the 15% buyers fee.] 


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