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THE GARRULUS COLLECTION. LUCANIA. Thurium.
Stater c. 400-385 BC. (7.36 g, 6 h) Signed by E.... . Head of Athena to right, wearing necklace and crested Attic helmet adorned with a figure of Skylla (she is human to the hips, but has the tail of a sea serpent and foreparts of two dogs at her waist); to right, here off flan. Rv. Bull charging to right, with lashing tail and head lowered; in exergue, river fish swimming to right. Gulbenkian 88. SNG Lloyd 476. SNG Oxford 930. SNG Lockett 482 (this coin). Selten / Rare. Kleine Kratzer und Felder etwas geglättet / Some scratches and fields smoothed. Fast vorzüglich / About extremely fine.
(~€ 1'565/USD 1'705)

Herakleia and Thurioi were the last cities to be founded in western Greece. The main group of the founders were the expelled Sybarites who, after 60 years, settled a new city in their old homeland in 443 BC; they were helped by the Athens of Pericles. Athena in the Attic helmet and the bull of Sybaris are stamped on the coins of the new city. A friend of Pericles, Lampon, led the founding procession. Herodotus, who died in Thurioi, and the philosopher Protagoras, who drafted the constitution, were also involved. Lysias, the orator, and Empedocles, the philosopher, were active in Thurioi for a time. During the Sicilian expedition of Athens in 415-413 BC, Thurioi remained loyal to its mother city, but then turned to Sparta. In the 4th century BC, Thurioi had to defend itself against the Brettians, Lucanians and Tarentum with varying success. Occupied by Rome in 282 BC, conquered by Carthage in the 2nd Punic War, Thurioi became a Roman colony called Copia in 194 BC.

From auction Leu 81, Zurich May 2001, lot 27.

From auction Hess-Leu 24, Zurich, April 1964, lot 30.

From the R. C. Lockett collection, auction Glendining & Co. London, October 1955, lot 360.

From the C. S. Bement collection, auction Naville VI , Luzern, January 1923, lot 225.

From the M. P. Vlasto collection.

A remarkably detailed coin by an otherwise unknown engraver of great ability: the representation of Skylla on the obverse is one of the most attractive ever made.

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