Bertolami Fine Art
Auction 19 11-12 November 2015
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Bruttium, Stater, Kaulonia, c. 450 BC; AR (g 8,01; mm 22; h 12); KAVΛ, Apollo advancing r., holding laurel branch; above l. arm, running figure (daimon); at r., stag with head turned l., dotted border, Rv. KAVΛ (retr.), stag standing r.; at r., branch, dotted border. HNItaly 2046; SNG Copenhagen 1710; SNG ANS 175.
Rare, cabinet tone, minor weakness of die on obverse, good centering, extremely fine.
Kaulonia was one of the few poleis that held the same types unchanged over time, except for some small stylistic changes. A major transformation occurred at the transition from the incuse coinage that double relief, around 470 BC when the stag, a symbol secondary place on obverse, appeared o reverse, and it remaining so until the end of coin production.
Rare, cabinet tone, minor weakness of die on obverse, good centering, extremely fine.
Kaulonia was one of the few poleis that held the same types unchanged over time, except for some small stylistic changes. A major transformation occurred at the transition from the incuse coinage that double relief, around 470 BC when the stag, a symbol secondary place on obverse, appeared o reverse, and it remaining so until the end of coin production.