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Auction XVIII  29 Sep 2019
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Lot 494

Estimate: 1000 GBP
Price realized: 3000 GBP
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Bruttium, Rhegion AR Drachm. Circa 450-445 BC. Facing lion's head / Iokastos seated left on stool, himation over lower limbs, holding sceptre in right hand and resting left on hip; RECINON around; all within laurel wreath. Herzfelder 16g (D9/R14, this coin) = SNG Lockett 652 (this coin) = Pozzi 325 (this coin) = Seltman, Demos pl. VIII, 1 (this coin); SNG ANS 643-650; HN Italy 2478. 4.02g, 17mm, 6h.

Extremely Fine; beautiful old cabinet tone. Very Rare. Published in four numismatic publications between 1897-1957.

From the collection of a Photographer;
This coin published by H. Herzfelder, Les monnaies d'argent de Rhegium (Paris, 1957);
This coin published in Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume III, Lockett Collection (London, 1938);
This coin published in Monnaies Grecques Antiques S. Pozzi (Geneva, 1921);
This coin published by E. J. Seltman, 'The type known as "The Demos," on coins of Rhegium' in NC 17, pp. 173-189 (London, 1897);
Ex Richard Cyril Lockett Collection, Glendining, Greek Part I, 25 October 1955, lot 534;
Ex Prof. Samuel-Jean Pozzi Collection, L. Naville, Auction I, 4 April 1921, lot 325.
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