Scarce Kaulonia Nomos

167, Lot: 21. Estimate $300. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Kaulonia. Circa 425-420 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 7.87 g). KAV LONIAT [AN], Apollo advancing right, holding laurel branch; ivy leaf above Apollo's outstretched arm, to left, octopus, to right, stag standing right / Stag standing right; to right, ivy-leaf. Noe, Caulonia Group I, 141; HN Italy 2055; McClean 1616 (same dies). VF, toned.

From the C. G. Collection. Ex Triton II (Classical Numismatic Group and Freeman & Sear, December 1998), lot 118.

Noe remarks that of the known specimens from this obverse die, none show the beginning of the obverse inscription. This coin is perhaps the only known specimen to show this part of the ethnic.