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Auction 27 22 May 2023
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BRUTTIUM. Terina. Circa 380 BC. Stater (Silver, 20.5 mm, 7.69 g, 12 h). ΤΕΡΙΝΑΙΩΝ Head of the nymph Terina to right, wearing a pearl necklace and a pendant earring, and with her hair rolled up and bound at the top of her head. Rev. Nike seated left on a cippus, with a dove alighting on her right hand and with her left resting on the cippus. AMB 242 (same dies). HN III 2629. Holloway & Jenkins 84. Reeling 78 (same dies). Of particularly fine Classical style, perhaps the prettiest of all the staters of Terina, nicely toned and well-centered. About extremely fine.
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 27, 12 May 2004, 64.
The engraver who produced the dies for this coin was fully aware of the work of his predecessors and contemporaries. The head of Terina refers back to the Arethusa of Syracuse, especially those of Euainetos (Evans supposedly read the signature ΕΥΑ on a coin of these types, but no one else has been able to confirm that); and the figure of Nike is reminiscent of those on the coinage of Olympia.
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 27, 12 May 2004, 64.
The engraver who produced the dies for this coin was fully aware of the work of his predecessors and contemporaries. The head of Terina refers back to the Arethusa of Syracuse, especially those of Euainetos (Evans supposedly read the signature ΕΥΑ on a coin of these types, but no one else has been able to confirm that); and the figure of Nike is reminiscent of those on the coinage of Olympia.