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BRUTTIUM. Rhegium. Ca. 415-387 BC. AR tetradrachm (25mm, 16.79 gm, 9h). NGC AU 5/5 - 3/5, Fine Style. Lion's head, viewed frontally and from above / PHΓIИOИ, laureate head of Apollo right, olive sprig to left. Herzfelder 75 (D43/R63). HN Italy 2496. SNG ANS 66. Areas of minor porosity, otherwise struck in sculptural high relief from dies of sublime style and beautifully toned.
Ex NAC 2 (21 February 1990), lot 49.
Rhegium was one of the oldest Greek colonies in Italy, first settled in the late 700s BC. Located on the mainland directly across the Straits of Messana from Sicily, Rhegium grew prosperous on trade with the island, but later fell into conflict with Sicily's chief city, Syracuse. Its first coinage, starting about 480 BC, was patterned on that of nearby Messana on Sicily, featuring a mule-drawn chariot and leaping hare, reflecting a cross-channel political union. Starting in 461 BC, Rhegium adopted a lion's scalp, viewed from above, as the obverse type, probably a reference to the hero Heracles, slayer of the Nemean Lion. Late in the fifth century (420 BC) comes an extraordinary series of tetradrachms, to which our example belongs, featuring a head of Apollo on the reverse, often of surpassingly beautiful style.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 8000-10000 USD
BRUTTIUM. Rhegium. Ca. 415-387 BC. AR tetradrachm (25mm, 16.79 gm, 9h). NGC AU 5/5 - 3/5, Fine Style. Lion's head, viewed frontally and from above / PHΓIИOИ, laureate head of Apollo right, olive sprig to left. Herzfelder 75 (D43/R63). HN Italy 2496. SNG ANS 66. Areas of minor porosity, otherwise struck in sculptural high relief from dies of sublime style and beautifully toned.
Ex NAC 2 (21 February 1990), lot 49.
Rhegium was one of the oldest Greek colonies in Italy, first settled in the late 700s BC. Located on the mainland directly across the Straits of Messana from Sicily, Rhegium grew prosperous on trade with the island, but later fell into conflict with Sicily's chief city, Syracuse. Its first coinage, starting about 480 BC, was patterned on that of nearby Messana on Sicily, featuring a mule-drawn chariot and leaping hare, reflecting a cross-channel political union. Starting in 461 BC, Rhegium adopted a lion's scalp, viewed from above, as the obverse type, probably a reference to the hero Heracles, slayer of the Nemean Lion. Late in the fifth century (420 BC) comes an extraordinary series of tetradrachms, to which our example belongs, featuring a head of Apollo on the reverse, often of surpassingly beautiful style.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 8000-10000 USD