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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Italy| > SH66048
Graxa, Calabria, Italy, 250 - 89 B.C.
|Italy|, |Graxa,| |Calabria,| |Italy,| |250| |-| |89| |B.C.|, The location of Graxa has not yet been discovered and the dating of the coinage is also uncertain. Historia Numorum dates this type c. 250 - 200 B.C. Lindgren dates it 200 - 89 B.C.
SH66048. Bronze AE 13, Lindgren II 249 (this coin), SNG Cop 749, BMC Italy, p. 222, 9 (uncertain Calabria), HN Italy 773, VF, Graxa mint, weight 1.691g, maximum diameter 12.6mm, die axis 90o, 250 - 89 B.C.; obverse scallop shell, o countermark left; reverse eagle right, wings open, thunderbolt in talons, crescent right, ΓPA below; this is the Lindgren plate coin!; very rare; SOLD










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