BRUTTIUM, Terina. Circa 420-400 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 7.78 g, 7h).Triton XXV Greek, Coin-in-Hand Video, Silver Sold For $ 14 000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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BRUTTIUM, Terina. Circa 420-400 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 7.78 g, 7h). Head of the nymph Terina right, hair in sphendone, decorated with crenellated geometric pattern, and tied into knot; tiny Π behind neck, TEPI-NAIO-[N] around / Nike, wings spread, holding olive branch in right hand, and supporting herself with her left, seated left on stele decorated with a tiny Π. Regling, Terina 43g (dies V/νν) = Jameson 479 = Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Ancient Greek Art (London, 1904), pl. CI, 105 (this coin, illustrating the dies in Regling); Holloway & Jenkins 47 (same dies as illustration); HN Italy 2602; BMC 17 (same dies); Boston MFA 213–4 (same dies); Hunterian 12 (same dies). Old collection tone, some light pitting, minor flan flaw on obverse. Near EF. Struck from wonderfully executed dies. |