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Lot
# 55 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$6500
/ Price Realized: US$6500
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Lucania, Thurium. Stater, signed by Molossos
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Lucania, Thurium. c. 350 BC. Stater, signed by Molossos, 7.99gg. (5h). Obv: Head of Athena right, wearing Attic helmet decorated with Scylla. Rx: Bull butting right, head lowered, pawing ground with right foreleg and flicking tail; above, ethnic ÈÏÕÑÉÙÍ; below, plinth inscribed with name [MO]ËOÓÓOÓ. SNG ANS 1024 (same rev. die). Though it is uncertain whether Molossos was a die engraver or a magistrate, the coins with his name are rare and desirable, and our specimen is finer than most recorded examples, including the one in the ANS. Excellent pedigree, Toned EF.
Ex M & M 64, 26 October 1978, lot 64
Ex Vinchon Sale, November 1977, lot 30
Ex Art Monaco, 1970.
"The name of Molossos was regarded by Noe (Thurian Distaters, p. 13) as that of a magistrate, but Robinson, adducing a plated coin on which MOËOÓ is followed by EÐOE ("Molossos made it"), argued for an engraver's signature" (Rutter, HN Italy, 1784).
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