Bertolami Fine Art
Auction 8 3 February 2014
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Bruttium, Bronze, Scylletium, c. 344-325 BC; AE (g 6,10; mm 20; h 6); Male head l., wearing pileos, Rv. Skylla swimming l. HNItaly 2565; SNG Copenhagen 1992-1993; SNG ANS 800.
Very rare, green patina. Good very fine.
The attribution of this issue is still uncertain. It is assigned, in the absence of the ethnic, to Scylletium only according to numismatic finds, especially that of Roccelletta of Borgia. The issue was coined, generally, overstrucking the Siracusian specimens with the head of Athena and the hippocamp. This feature, together with other affinity with the bronze coinages of Sicily in the Timoleontic period, have led scholars to date the rare bronze during the third quarter of the fourth cen. BC.
Very rare, green patina. Good very fine.
The attribution of this issue is still uncertain. It is assigned, in the absence of the ethnic, to Scylletium only according to numismatic finds, especially that of Roccelletta of Borgia. The issue was coined, generally, overstrucking the Siracusian specimens with the head of Athena and the hippocamp. This feature, together with other affinity with the bronze coinages of Sicily in the Timoleontic period, have led scholars to date the rare bronze during the third quarter of the fourth cen. BC.