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LUCANIA, Thourioi. Circa 350-300 BC. AR Nomos (21.5mm, 7.78 g, 3h).LUCANIA, Thourioi. Circa 350-300 BC. AR Nomos (21.5mm, 7.78 g, 3h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with Skylla holding trident / Bull butting right; Z above; in exergue, fish right. HN Italy 1813; SNG ANS 1056-7. Toned, struck with worn obverse die. Good VF. Purchased by the consignor from M&M Numismatics, October 2000 (their stock ticket included). Closing Date and Time: 15 December 2021 at 10:08:00 ET.Mark R1
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Bull charging right, tunny-fish below. AR nomos Lucania, ThourioiLucania, Thourioi
Silver didrachm. 385-360 B.C.
21.2mm, 7.00g
O: Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with Skylla holding trident
R: Bull charging right, ΘΟΥΡΙΩΝ above, tunny-fish right in exergue.Salaethus
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Italy, Cosenza, Sibari (Thurium), StreetLucania, Thourioi.
Today Sibari (Cosenza), Italy
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Italy, Thurium, Planning assumptions of Thurium (Lucania)Planning assumptions of Thurium, by Archaeological Museum of Sibaritide (Sibari, Cs, Italy).
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Lucania Thourioi Stater 385 - 360 BC.Obv ; Helmeted head of Athena, helmet decorated with Skylla holding trident.
Rev ; QOURIWN, bull butting; fish in exergue.
G/aVF , 20.8 mm, 7.44 gr.
EX THE COLIN E. PITCHFORK COLLECTION.
EX CNG.
Thourioi, was a city of Magna Graecia on the Gulf of Tarentum, near the site of the older Sybaris. It owed its origin to an attempt made in 452 BC by Sybarite exiles and their descendants to re-people their old home. The new settlement was crushed by Croton, but the Athenians lent aid to the fugitives and in 443 BC Pericles sent out to Thourioi a mixed body of colonists from various parts of Greece, among whom were Herodotus and the orator Lysias.
The pretensions of the Sybarite colonists led to dissensions and ultimately to their expulsion; peace was made with Croton, and also, after a period of war, with Tarentum, and Thourioi rose rapidly in power and drew settlers from all parts of Greece, especially from Peloponnesus, so that the tie to Athens was not always acknowledged. The oracle of Delphi determined that the city had no founder but Apollo, and in the Athenian Expedition in Sicily Thourioi was at first neutral, though it finally helped the Athenians.
Thourioi had a democratic constitution and good laws, and, though we hear little of its history till in 390 BC it received a severe defeat from the rising power of the Lucanians. Many beautiful coins testify to the wealth and splendor of its days of prosperity.
In the 4th century BC it continued to decline, and at length called in the help of the Romans against the Lucanians, and then in 282 BC against Tarentum. Thenceforward its position was dependent, and in the Second Punic War, after several vicissitudes, it was depopulated and plundered by Hannibal in 204 BC.
From The Sam Mansourati Collection.Sam
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Lucania Thourioi, 385-360 B.C.Platon
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LUCANIA, ThourioiGR7
Thurii was one of the latest of all the Greek colonies in this part of Italy, not having been founded until nearly 70 years after the fall of Sybaris. The site of that city had remained desolate for a period of 58 years after its destruction by the Crotoniats; when at length, in 452 BC, a number of the Sybarite exiles and their descendants made an attempt to establish themselves again on the spot, under the guidance of some leaders of Thessalian origin; and the new colony rose so rapidly to prosperity that it excited the jealousy of the Crotoniats, who, in consequence, expelled the new settlers a little more than 5 years after the establishment of the colony. The fugitive Sybarites first appealed for support to Sparta, but without success: their application to the Athenians was more successful, and that people determined to send out a fresh colony, at the same time that they reinstated the settlers who had been lately expelled from thence. A body of Athenian colonists was accordingly sent out by Pericles, under the command of Lampon and Xenocritus; but the number of Athenian citizens was small, the greater part of those who took part in the colony being collected from various parts of Greece. Among them were two celebrated names – Herodotus the historian, and the orator Lysias, both of whom appear to have formed part of the original colony. The laws of the new colony were established by the sophist Protagoras at the request of Pericles
LUCANIA, Thourioi. Circa 400-350 BC. AR Triobol (11mm, 1.18 gm). Helmeted head of Athena right, helmeted decorated with Skylla / Bull butting left; fish in exergue. SNG ANS 1138-47; HN Italy 1806. VF. Ex-CNG BB0VFAecoli
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Lucania, ThourioiHead of Athena right, wearing helmet decorated with Skylla holding rudder over shoulder
Bull butting right; below, dolphin right in waves.
Lucania, Thourioi
Circa 400-350 BC
7.35g
HN Italy 1794b; SNG ANS 1048.
Ex CNG 385, Lot: 48, Ex-Steve P collectionJay GT4
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Lucania, ThourioiLUCANIA, Thourioi. Circa 400-350 BC. AR Nomos (23mm, 7.46 g). Head of Athena right, wearing helmet decorated with Skylla holding trident / Bull butting right on solid and dotted exergue lines; olive branch above; in exergue, fish right. HN Italy 1793; SNG ANS 1039.Ajax
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Lucania, Thourioi SNG Copenhagen 1514 cf.AE 18 (Hemiobol), 4.47g
struck c. 260 BC
obv. Head of Persephone/Kore, wearing necklace and wreathed with corn-ears, l.
THOVRIA behind
rev. Bull with head down butting l.
[PARME? above]
in ex. fish
SNG Copenhagen 1514 cf.; Laffaille 62 var. (ISTI on rev.)
rare, about VF
From Forum Ancient Coins, thanks!
This rev. was the paradigm of the Augustus denarius RIC I, 169!Jochen
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Lucania, Thourioi StaterHead of Athena right wearing Attic helmet decorated with Skylla holding trident
ΘΟΥΡΙΩΝ
Bull butting right, solid exurgal line below HR monogram above
c. 420-400 BC
6.74g
SNG ANS-1041-2 var
Ex-HJB; Ex Superior, 30 May 1995, lot 7072 (Lewis Egnew Collection)Jay GT4
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Lucania, Thourioi. Athena and Butting Bull Distater.Greek Italy. Lucania, Thourioi. 350-300 BC. AR Distater (25mm, 15.09 gm). Head of Athena r., wearing helmet decorated with Skylla shading her eyes and brandishing stone. / Bull butting r., r. foreleg raised, ΘΟΡΙΩΝ & EYΦA above; in exergue, two fish r. gVF. CNG 102 #64. ex-Tom Cederlind. HN Italy 1823; HGC 1 #1257; Noe Thurian J2 (same dies). cf. SNG Cop 1 (Italy) #1430 (brandishing stone, ex?); SNG ANS 2 #977 (brandishing stone, thyrsos in ex.); BMC p. 290 #38 (brandishing stone, ΣΑΝ behind helmet).Anaximander
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Lucania, Thourioi. Athena and Butting Bull Stater.Greek Italy. Lucania, Thourioi. 320-280 BC. AR Stater (7.79 gm). Head of Athena, r., wearing Attic helmet decorated with Scylla brandishing stone, Σm on neck-piece. / Nike crowning Bull butting r., tail & r. foreleg raised. Σ-Ι-m between legs. In ex: ΦΟΥΡΙΩΝ (remnant). EF. Ponterio 145 #118. SNG Cop 1 (Italy) #1463 var. (same obv. die, ΣΙ above bull); HN Italy 1845; HGC 1 #1263; Collezione Santangelo (Museo Nazionale di Napoli) #4943; BMC Greek p.296 #96 var. (ΦΡΥ, not Σ-Ι-M). SNG ANS - . cf. NY Sale 34 #10 (same dies); CNG 87 #178 (same dies).Anaximander
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LUCANIA. Sybaris. AR StaterCirca 550-510 B.C. (28mm, 8.43 g, 12h). Obverse: bull standing left, head reverted; VM in exergue. Reverse: incuse bull standing right, head reverted. S & S Class B, pl. XLVIII, 4-8 Gorini 2; HN Italy 1729. VF, toned.
Ex Volteia Collection
Ex CNG
This coin was minted before the destruction of Sybaris by its neighboring city state Kroton in 510 B.C. We do not know the exact nature why Kroton destroyed this prosperous city. Ancient sources provided us several accounts of Sybaris being a place of hedonism and excess to the point that the very name Sybaris became a byword for opulent luxury, and its destruction was a result of some divine punishment (Diodorus Siculus, Strabo, Aelianus, Athenaeus). Modern revisionist view of the possible demise of Sybaris might be the result of its vast natural wealth and successful trade with its neighbors, which gave Kroton the economic reason to subjugate it. The Sybarites established a new city called Thourioi (Thurii/Thurium) with the help of Athenian settlers. However, the Sybarites were again expelled by the Athenians in 445 B.C. and founded another city for the last time called Sybaris on the Traeis.
Sybaris might be the first to mint coins with an incuse reverse and this practice spread to other Greek city states like Kroton, Metapontion, and Poseidonia. The similar weight and technique in producing these incuse-type coins facilitated trade between the cities mentioned. The bull might represent the river god Crathis or Sybaris, or both: each deity could represent either the obverse or reverse of the coin. The ethnic VM (or YM) in exergue are the first two Greek letters of Sybaris spelled retrogradely.Jason T
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Thourioi - AR double nomos (distater)c. 4th century BC
head of Athena right wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with Skylla
bull butting right; 2 fish right in exergue
ΘOYPIΩN / EYΦA
SNG COP. 1430
15,5g 29,5mm
ex AureaJ. B.
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Thourioi - AR nomosc. 400 - 350 BC
head of Athena right wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with Skylla
E
bull butting right; fish swimming right below
ΘOYPIΩN
HN Italy 1783; cf. SNG ANS 1015
7,7g 21mm
ex Roma NumismaticsJ. B.
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Thourioi, Lucania400 – 350 B.C.
Silver Triobol (1/6 stater)
1.08 gm, 12 mm
Obv.: Head of Athena, wearing crested Attic helmet with Skylla throwing a rock
Rev. Bull butting right, fish in exergue, ΘOYPIΩN above
BMC 1 p.297, 102; Sear 444 var.Jaimelai
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Thourioi, Lucania400 – 350 B.C.
Silver Diobol
1.09 gm, 12 mm
Obv.: Head of Athena, wearing crested Attic helmet with Skylla throwing a rock
Rev.: Bull butting right with ΔA above,
caduceus in exergue,
ΘOYPIΩN above
BMC 1 p. 297, 104;
Sear 444 var.
Jaimelai
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Thourioi. AE 11Helmeted hd of Athena r.
Bull butting r.
BMC 138
10.4 - 11.4 mm, 1.17 g.Pekka K
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Thurii, Lucania300-280 BC
AR Didrachm (21mm, 7.67g)
O: Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet ornamented with Skylla hurling a stone.
R: Bull butting right; ΘOYPIΩN and ΘE above, tunny fish in ex.
SNG ANS 1081; HN Italy 1870; Sear 443v (inscription on exergual line)
From the Frederick H. Rindge collection; ex Jack H. Beymer
Rising from the ruins of New Sybaris, Thurii was originally planned by Perikles of Athens as a Greek utopia. Scientists, artists, poets and philosophers from all over the Greek mainland were encouraged to immigrate to southern Italy around 443 BC to help establish this new city tucked against the mountains between two rivers on the west coast of the Tarentine Gulf. Among those accepting the challenge was Herodotus, who finished his ‘Histories’ here before his death in 420. The sophist Protagoras of Abdera also came, and was commissioned to write the new city’s democratic constitution.
However this idea of a peaceful colony of free-thinkers was destined to be short-lived. By 413 BC the colony was at war with mother-city Athens, and in 390 Thurii suffered a significant defeat by the Lucanians. In response the Thurians called in help from Rome to deal with this threat, and then again in 282 for its’ war with Taras. The city was later plundered by Hannibal of Carthage during the second Punic war, who left it in ruin.Enodia
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Thurii, Lucania 425-400 BC
AR Diobol (11mm, 1.02g)
O: Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet.
R: Bull butting right; ΘOYPIΩN above; [tunny fish right] in ex.
Sear 438; BMC 1 21
The coinage of Thurii depicts its’ origins, with Athena adorning the obverse, and the bull reverse, although more dynamic here, is reminiscent of the ealier coins of Sybaris.
Enodia
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