Lucania, Paestum (Poseidonia) Æ 11mm. After 90 BC. Aryballos (oil-flask) / Strigil. SNG München 1149; Garrucci CXXIII, 11. 1.68g, 11mm, 3h.
Very Fine. Extremely Rare; none in CoinArchives.
From the Anders Collection, collector's ticket included.
Strigils were used by Greeks and Romans to scrape layers of sand and oil from their bodies after exercising. The strigil and the aryballos were the basic equipment of all athletes in the ancient world.