| Lugdunum GmbH > Auction 23 | Auction date: 14 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 6 Price realized: 2,200 CHF (Approx. 2,511 USD / 2,326 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: GREEK COINS ITALY. LUCANIA. Sybaris. Nomos circa 550-510 BC. Bull standing left on dotted exergual line, looking backwards; in exergue, VM // The same type incuse. Dewing 406; Historia Numorum Italy 1729; Jameson 1873; SNG ANS 834; SNG Copenhagen 1388. 7.77 g. Extremely fine with charming toning Provenance: Fixed Prices List SKA-Monetarium 44, Zurich (Switzerland), Autumn 1985, lot n°7. Estimate: 1000 CHF |  |
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| Lugdunum GmbH > Auction 23 | Auction date: 14 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 5 Price realized: 750 CHF (Approx. 856 USD / 793 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: GREEK COINS ITALY. LUCANIA. Metapontum. Nomos circa 510-470 BC. Ear of barley // The same type incuse. Johnston-Noe 180; Historia Numorum Italy 1482. 7.97 g. Very fine with charming toning Provenance: Auction Adolph Hess AG 252, Lucerne (Switzerland), 24 May 1982, lot n°20. Estimate: 250 CHF |  |
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| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 119 | Auction date: 24 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 117 Price realized: 6,000 GBP (Approx. 7,460 USD / 6,979 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Please note this lot is not suitable for US Import. Lucania, Sirinos (Siris) in alliance with Pyxoes (Pixos) AR Stater. Circa 540-510 BC. Bull standing to left, head reverted; ΣIΡIN-OΣ retrograde in archaic characters below and above / Incuse bull standing to right, head reverted; archaic characters PVX retrograde in exergue. G. Mangieri, 'Sibari Sirino e Pissunte', in RIN 1981, A1 (same dies); Traité 2083, pl. LXVII, 1 (same dies); Perret I (same dies); BMC 2; HN Italy 1723; HGC 1, 1228. 6.83g, 30mm, 12h. Extremely Fine; dark cabinet tone with traces of original mineral adhesions. Very Rare; an intriguing and historically interesting issue of which very few extant examples are known, with only two specimens recorded from this pair of dies. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction XXV, 22 September 2022, lot 38. This stater is testament to the alliance of two cities, Sirinos and Pyxoes. The word 'Sirinos', known only from the numismatic record, was at one point considered an adjective referring to the wealthy city of Siris on the Ionian coast, which was destroyed by the alliance of Sybaris, Metapontion and Kroton in the early sixth century BC. However, partly because of the great distance between Siris and Pyxoes it is now thought possible that 'Sirinos' is in fact the name of a city in its own right, likely that of the 'Sirini' people of whom Pliny the Elder writes in his description of southern Italy (NH 3.15). Ruins attributed to Sirinos have been identified on a rocky peak in the valley of Lauria near Rivello, which are still referred to as 'the city', and which geographically would make considerably more sense, being only approximately 30km away from Pyxoes. Pyxoes itself was an ancient Lucanian city situated on the Tyrrhenian coast, today Policastro Bussentino, and reported by Diodoros Siculus (11.59.4) as having been founded by Mikythos the tyrant of Rhegion and Zankle-Messana in 471/0 BC, possibly as a military outpost, though the numismatic evidence suggests that Pyxoes existed prior to this event; what is not clear is whether it was a Hellenic community prior to Mikythos' refoundation, or whether it was an Italic one. The extent of Pyxoes' territory is uncertain, but it is hard to conceive of it as being autonomous. Both cities must inevitably have come under the influence of Sybaris, an important city which amassed proverbially great wealth and power due to its fertile land and advantageously positioned port. Indeed, this type of a bull with head reverted and an incuse reverse is directly derived from the contemporary Sybaritic coinage (e.g. HN Italy 1729-1742), the similarities extending as far as the details of the dotted ground line and reverse ray border (S. R. Olsen, 'An incuse stater from the series 'Sirinos/ Pyxoes'', Journal of the Numismatic Association of Australia 26 (2015), p.37.). The incuse design and Achaean weight standard is typical of coinage from the sixth century BC in southern Italy and was also employed in nearby Metapontion and Croton. Estimate: 10000 GBP |  |
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| Lugdunum GmbH > Auction 23 | Auction date: 14 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 7 Price realized: 2,800 CHF (Approx. 3,196 USD / 2,960 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: GREEK COINS ITALY. LUCANIA. Thurium. Nomos circa 400-350 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing Attic helmet decorated with Scylla holding staff and pointing // Bull butting right; in exergue, fish. Historia Numorum Italy 1800; SNG Ashmolean 951; SNG Copenhagen 1436. 7.79 g. Good very fine with nice toning Provenance: Strozzi Collection, Auction Hôtel des ventes G. Sangiorgi 111, Rome (Italy), 15 April 1907, lot n°1098; J. Pierpont Morgan Collection (1953), p. 12, n°76; Auction Adolph Hess AG & AG Leu & Co., Lucerne (Switzerland), 2 April 1958, lot n°22. Estimate: 350 CHF |  |
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| Lugdunum GmbH > Auction 23 | Auction date: 14 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 10 Price realized: 750 CHF (Approx. 856 USD / 793 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: GREEK COINS ITALY. BRUTTIUM. Kroton. Nomos circa 530-500 BC. Tripod, legs surmounted by wreaths and terminating in lion's feet, set on basis of three lines, the center dotted; to right, heron standing left // Incuse tripod as obverse, but wreaths in relief; to right, heron standing left. HN Italy 2093; SNG Ashmolean 1467; SNG Lloyd 596. 7.97 g. Extremely fine with charming toning Provenance: Auction Gerhard Hirsch 84, Munich (Germany), 27 June 1973, lot n°7; Auction Dr. Busso Peus Nachf. 299, Francfort (Germany), 6 May 1980, lot n°64; Fixed Prices List SKA-Monetarium 39, Zurich (Switzerland), Spring 1983, lot n°4. Estimate: 350 CHF |  |
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| Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 146 | Auction date: 8 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 2044 Price realized: 11,000 CHF (Approx. 12,113 USD / 11,269 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Sybaris. Nomos circa 550-510, AR 30 mm, 8.35 g. Bull standing l. on dotted exergual line, looking backward; in exergue, VM. Rev. The same type incuse. SNG Copenhagen 1388. SNG ANS 834. Dewing 406. Babelon, RN 1912, pl. V, 1 (this coin). Jameson 1873 (this coin). Historia Numorum Italy 1729. A magnificent specimen perfectly struck and centred on a full flan. Old cabinet tone and good extremely fine Ex M&M 8, 1949, 729; Sotheby's 7 March 1996, 38 and NAC 114, 2019, 24 sales. Previously purchased privately from Pierre Strauss in February 1950. From the Jameson collection and the Taranto hoard of 1911. Estimate: 8000 CHF |  |
