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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Italy| > SH08279
Thourioi, Lucania, Italy, 443 - 400 B.C.
|Italy|, |Thourioi,| |Lucania,| |Italy,| |443| |-| |400| |B.C.|, Nearly 70 years after Sybaris was destroyed by the Crotoniats, a new colony was founded on the site on the Gulf of Taranto. Soon after, on the advice of an oracle, the settlers moved a short distance away near a fountain named Thuria, after which the new city was named. This obverse die is one of the most beautiful of this series.
SH08279. Silver stater, SNG Cop 1405, SGCV I 435, EF, Thourioi (near Sibari, Cosenza, Calabria, Italy) mint, weight 7.91g, maximum diameter 20.7mm, die axis 0o, 443 - 400 B.C.; obverse head of Athena right, wearing Attic helmet decorated with olive wreath; reverse ΘOYPIΩN, thickset, short legged bull right, head in profile, just beginning to charge, fish in exergue; fine style, high relief, beautiful toning with rainbow colors; SOLD











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