Triton XIX, Lot: 24. Estimate $7500. Sold for $9000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Kaulonia. Circa 525-500 BC. AR Nomos (30.5mm, 7.97 g, 12h). Apollo advancing right, holding branch aloft in right hand, left arm extended, upon which a small daimon, holding branch in each hand, runs right; KAVΛ to left; to right, stag standing right, head reverted / Incuse of obverse, but daimon in outline and no ethnic. Noe, Caulonia Group A, 6 (same dies); Gorini 3 (same dies); HN Italy 2035; Consul Weber 440 (same dies); Gillet 278–9; Hermitage Sale II 163 (same dies); Hunterian 2 (same dies); Morgan 21 (same obv. die). EF, toned, a hint of porosity, light scuff on obverse, fine cleaning marks on reverse.

Ex Leu 72 (12 May 1998), lot 41.

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 the coins. In the early fourth century, Kaulonia joined with Sybaris and Kroton in a league that was defeated by Dionysios I of Syracuse in 389/8 BC. Although the city was left intact, this event marked the cessation of its coinage.