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Auction 40 11 January 2017
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ANCIENT COINS, ANCIENT GREEK COINS, Lucania, Metapontion. Silver Nomos (8.13 g), ca. 540-510 BC. META, barley ear with eight grains. Rev. Incuse barley ear with eight grains. (Noe 78; SNG ANS 192; HN Italy 1467). Struck on a broad fan from finely engraved dies, light iridescent toning. Extremely fine.
This stater features raised obverse types paired with matching incuse reverses, a technique that was popular among several of the cities of Magna Graecia in southern Italy during the Archaic period. The use of matched incuse reverses was far more complex than that of most other contemporary coinages which involved an obverse type and a reverse punch. Not only did both dies have to be cut to the same design, but the reverse die had to be cut in high relief and adjusted properly at the time of striking in order to match up with the obverse.
Estimate: $ 2,000
This stater features raised obverse types paired with matching incuse reverses, a technique that was popular among several of the cities of Magna Graecia in southern Italy during the Archaic period. The use of matched incuse reverses was far more complex than that of most other contemporary coinages which involved an obverse type and a reverse punch. Not only did both dies have to be cut to the same design, but the reverse die had to be cut in high relief and adjusted properly at the time of striking in order to match up with the obverse.
Estimate: $ 2,000