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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Italy| > SH46910
Thourioi, Lucania, Italy, c. 400 - 350 B.C.
|Italy|, |Thourioi,| |Lucania,| |Italy,| |c.| |400| |-| |350| |B.C.|, A superb example from the period when Thourioi's (Latin: Thurium) coinage reached its highest point of excellence in execution. The head of Athena is probably that of the sea-goddess Athena Skyletria. The bull may be a symbol of Dionysos or may have been derived from the archaic coins of Sybaris and symbolize the river Krathis. A more romantic view is that the butting bull symbolizes the rushing waters of the fountain Thuria from which the city took its name.
SH46910. Silver nomos, SNG Cop 1458 var. (stones not apparent); Pozzi -, gVF, beautiful style, toned, Thourioi (near Sibari, Cosenza, Calabria, Italy) mint, weight 7.716g, maximum diameter 20.8mm, die axis 90o, c. 400 - 350 B.C.; obverse head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with Skylla scanning and inscribed ΣΩ; reverse ΘOYPIΩN / ΣΩ, bull butting right, stones on exergual line, fish right in exergue; nice style, toned, tight flan; SOLD











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