234, Lot: 4. Estimate $200. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Kaulonia. Circa 475-425 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 7.59 g, 12h). Apollo advancing right, holding branch; to right, stag standing right, head reverted; all within cable border / Stag standing right. Noe, Caulonia Group E, 71 (same dies); HN Italy 2044. VF, some roughness.

Kaulonia was one of a number of Achaian colonies established in Magna Graecia in the seventh century BC. It is not certain whether it was founded by new colonists from the Peloponnesos or whether it was founded by the Achaians of Kroton. Kaulonia’s coinage began in the later sixth century, and was one of the many incuse types that marked the beginning of coinage in Italy. Apollo, the patron deity of Kaulonia, and his associated iconography were the primary types featured on their coins. In the early fourth century Kaulonia joined with Sybaris and Kroton in a league that was destroyed in 389/8 BC by Dionysios I of Syracuse. Although the city was left intact, this event marked the cessation of its coinage.