Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XIII 23 March 2017
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Lucania, Sybaris AR Stater. Circa 530-510 BC. Bull standing left, head right; VM in exergue / Incuse bull standing right, head left. HN Italy 1729; SNG ANS 828-44. 8.26g, 28mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine. Attractive old cabinet tone.
From a private German Collection.
Sybaris was founded in 720 BC by Achaean and Troezenian settlers. The city amassed great wealth thanks to its fertile land and busy port. Its inhabitants became famous among the Greeks for their hedonism, feasts, and excesses, to the extent that 'sybarite' and 'sybaritic' have become bywords for opulent luxury and outrageous pleasure-seeking. In 510/09 BC the city was conquered by its neighbour Kroton and its population driven out. Though many survivors fled to the Sybarite colonies of Laos and Skidros, some appear to have remained on the site which passed into Krotoniate dependency, as indicated by incuse coins bearing the joint ethnics of both Kroton and Sybaris and confirmed by a report that the Krotoniates appointed a governor at Sybaris.
Extremely Fine. Attractive old cabinet tone.
From a private German Collection.
Sybaris was founded in 720 BC by Achaean and Troezenian settlers. The city amassed great wealth thanks to its fertile land and busy port. Its inhabitants became famous among the Greeks for their hedonism, feasts, and excesses, to the extent that 'sybarite' and 'sybaritic' have become bywords for opulent luxury and outrageous pleasure-seeking. In 510/09 BC the city was conquered by its neighbour Kroton and its population driven out. Though many survivors fled to the Sybarite colonies of Laos and Skidros, some appear to have remained on the site which passed into Krotoniate dependency, as indicated by incuse coins bearing the joint ethnics of both Kroton and Sybaris and confirmed by a report that the Krotoniates appointed a governor at Sybaris.