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Lucania, Thurium. Stater, signed by Molossos.
c. 350 BC. Stater, signed by Molossos, 7.99g (5h). Obv: Head of Athena right, wearing Attic helmet decorated with Scylla. Rx: Bull butting right, head lowered, pawing ground with right foreleg and flicking tail; above, ethnic ΘΟΥΡΙΩΝ; below, plinth inscribed with name [MO]ΛOΣΣOΣ. SNG ANS 1024 (same rev. die). Ex M & M 64, 26 October 1978, lot 64 Ex Vinchon Sale, November 1977, lot 30 Ex Art Monaco, 1970. "The name of Molossos was regarded by Noe (Thurian Distaters, p. 13) as that of a magistrate, but Robinson, adducing a plated coin on which MOΛOΣ is followed by EΠOE ("Molossos made it"), argued for an engraver's signature" (Rutter, HN Italy, 1784). Though it is uncertain whether Molossos was a die engraver or a magistrate, the coins with his name are rare and desirable, and our specimen is finer than most recorded examples, including the one in the ANS. Excellent pedigree, Toned EF.
c. 350 BC. Stater, signed by Molossos, 7.99g (5h). Obv: Head of Athena right, wearing Attic helmet decorated with Scylla. Rx: Bull butting right, head lowered, pawing ground with right foreleg and flicking tail; above, ethnic ΘΟΥΡΙΩΝ; below, plinth inscribed with name [MO]ΛOΣΣOΣ. SNG ANS 1024 (same rev. die). Ex M & M 64, 26 October 1978, lot 64 Ex Vinchon Sale, November 1977, lot 30 Ex Art Monaco, 1970. "The name of Molossos was regarded by Noe (Thurian Distaters, p. 13) as that of a magistrate, but Robinson, adducing a plated coin on which MOΛOΣ is followed by EΠOE ("Molossos made it"), argued for an engraver's signature" (Rutter, HN Italy, 1784). Though it is uncertain whether Molossos was a die engraver or a magistrate, the coins with his name are rare and desirable, and our specimen is finer than most recorded examples, including the one in the ANS. Excellent pedigree, Toned EF.