Ex Rudman & Moretti Collections
Illustrated by Holloway
Triton XXII, Lot: 79. Estimate $10000. Sold for $14000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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BRUTTIUM, Kaulonia. Circa 475-425 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 8.08 g, 12h). Apollo advancing right, holding branch aloft in right hand, left arm extended, upon which a small daimon runs right; to left, boukranion facing within the branches of a tree; to right, stag standing right, head reverted on basis; pellet border / Stag standing right; [KAVΛONIATA]-M around; no border. Noe,
Caulonia, Group G, 108 (same dies); HN Italy 2049; SNG ANS 185 (same dies); SNG Lockett 588 = Pozzi 274 (same dies); Holloway,
Art, p. 13, 1, p. 48, and p. 117 (
this coin); Hunterian 10 (same dies). Near EF, attractive cabinet tone. Rare.
From the Gasvoda Collection. Ex Waddell inventory 51481 (August 2014); William N. Rudman Collection; Ex A.D. Moretti Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica P, 12 May 2005), lot 1097.