005: Bruttium. Caulonia, c. 520 BC. AR Nomos-Stater, A - eBay (item 320247622459 end time May-26-08 10:20:13 PDT) Back to My eBayCatalog:The Pre Long Beach Sale - World Sale eBay Live Auctions:Coins > World Coins > Live Auction Seller eBay:Coins & Paper Money > Coins: Ancient > Greek 005: Bruttium. Caulonia, c. 520 BC. AR Nomos-Stater, AItem number: 320247622459 You are signed in Bidding has ended for this item This item has been added to My eBay for Guests. As a guest, you can: Track up to 10 items on this computer in My eBay Receive an email reminder for this item a few hours before it ends View larger picture Closed at:US $20,000.00 Estimate:US $12,000.00 - US $15,000.00 History:18 bids Lot number:5 (View all lots) Auction Date:May-26-08 10:00:00 PDT Auction Currency:US $ (U.S. dollar) Currency Calculator High Bid:Live Auction Floor Bidder Item location:Beverly Hills, CA 0% APR until Jan 2009 - new eBay MasterCard You can also: Email to a friend Meet the seller Seller:i-lgoldbergcoinsandcollectibles( 2233) Feedback:99.2 % Positive Member:since May-09-01 in United States See detailed feedback Ask seller a question Add to Favorite Sellers View seller's other items Buy safely 1. Check the seller's reputation Score: 2233 | 99.2% Positive See detailed feedback 2. Check how you're protected If paying with a credit card, see your card issuer's terms Description (revised) Prev LotNext Lot Hover thumbnail to view large image below. Click thumbnail to view full image in new window. Bruttium. Caulonia, c. 520 BC. AR Nomos-Stater, Achaean standard (8.14 g). Apollo, nude, his hair bound with taenia, advances right, brandishing a laurel(?) branch in his upraised hand, and supporting in his outstretched hand a small running figure, his head turned back, regardant, and also holding a branch in each hand; stag standing to right on dotted ground line, his head turned back regardant; ethnic in left field; all within dotted cable border. Reverse: Reverse of Apollo and stag of obverse, but in incuse, with raised lines detailing small figure, stag's antlers, and laurel branch; border with hatching. Cf. Kraay/Hirmer 259; HN III 2035; Noe 2p (this coin); Sear 252 = BMC p. 335, 9 (same obverse die); SNG ANS 141. A superb example, in lovely, robust and exhuberant archaic style. Beautifully toned and sharply struck. Rare this nice. NGC graded About Uncirculated. Many of the most revered and artistic Greek coins were minted in Southern Italy and Sicily, the area called Magna Graecia. The city of Caulonia was repeatedly razed; her coinage reflects these troubled times. Finally, in 389 BC under Dionysios I, the city became a completely abandoned and utterly ruined town. Constant throughout her numismatic history, however, was the symbolic use of the Delphian Apollo figure, most wonderfully depicted on the town's archaic staters, or nomoi. Both "stater" and "nomos" (as singular nouns) denote the standard unit of coinage, with "nomos" being more frequently used in Southern Italy. Numismatists like Jacob Hirsch produced some of the finest sale catalogues early in the 20th century. The time consumed in preparing plaster casts of each of the coins, plus the expense of the beautiful black-and-white collotype plates, placed these references above and beyond what was normally seen. It is a great pleasure for today's numismatists to refer to past appearances, or provenances, of these selected gems of ancient coinage. Normally we don't have the privilege of knowing the previous whereabouts of coins, but each of these present offerings will have the future prestige of "ex Millennia Collection." Estimated Value $12,000 - 15,000. From the de Guermantes Collection, ex Jacob Hirsch, Liste XVII, February 1907, no. 291; and J. Hirsch, Liste XVI, December 1906, no. 159. Illustrated in Money of the World, coin 13. Our item number 115659 Notices This item is an "eBay Live Auction". This means that each item will not close at a specific time like a regular ebay auction. Because this is a live auction the lot will be opened in a format like a real auction house floor. Bids can be placed real-time during the auction via ebayliveauctions.com and icollector.com. Please note, bidders may place bids before the auction up to 1 hour prior to the start of the auction. 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