Numismatica Ars Classica
Auction 116 1 Oct 2019
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Nomos circa 510-500, AR 7.96 g. ΛAFΣ Man-headed bull (the river god Laos) r., head reverted. Exergual line of raised dots between two lines. Rev. NOM retrograde Same type l. incuse. Incuse wreath border. Sternberg series I, 1.8. Jameson 254 (these dies). Weber 727 (these dies). AMB 123 (these dies). Gillet 214 (these dies). SNG Copenhagen 1145 (these dies). SNG ANS 132 (these dies). Historia Numorum 2270 (these dies).
Extremely rare and in exceptional condition for the issue, undoubtedly among the finest
specimens in private hands. Perfectly struck and centred on an unusually
good metal. Wonderful old cabinet tone and about extremely fine
Ex Leu 2, 1972, 27; Leu 33, 1983, 198, Tkalec-Rauch 14-15 April 1986, 37 and New York XXVII, Prospero, 2012, 50 sales.
The obverse and reverse legends of this coin taken together compose the ethnic adjective Lavinos, "of Laos", the river-port colony of Sybaris, to which the remaining inhabitants of the mother-city would have fled after the destruction of Sybaris by its neighbours in 510 BC. The thick, late incuse fabric of this very short coinage seems to support this view, as does the type, the Sybaritic bull converted into the conventional river-god type to represent the river-god Laos.
Nomos circa 510-500, AR 7.96 g. ΛAFΣ Man-headed bull (the river god Laos) r., head reverted. Exergual line of raised dots between two lines. Rev. NOM retrograde Same type l. incuse. Incuse wreath border. Sternberg series I, 1.8. Jameson 254 (these dies). Weber 727 (these dies). AMB 123 (these dies). Gillet 214 (these dies). SNG Copenhagen 1145 (these dies). SNG ANS 132 (these dies). Historia Numorum 2270 (these dies).
Extremely rare and in exceptional condition for the issue, undoubtedly among the finest
specimens in private hands. Perfectly struck and centred on an unusually
good metal. Wonderful old cabinet tone and about extremely fine
Ex Leu 2, 1972, 27; Leu 33, 1983, 198, Tkalec-Rauch 14-15 April 1986, 37 and New York XXVII, Prospero, 2012, 50 sales.
The obverse and reverse legends of this coin taken together compose the ethnic adjective Lavinos, "of Laos", the river-port colony of Sybaris, to which the remaining inhabitants of the mother-city would have fled after the destruction of Sybaris by its neighbours in 510 BC. The thick, late incuse fabric of this very short coinage seems to support this view, as does the type, the Sybaritic bull converted into the conventional river-god type to represent the river-god Laos.