Lot 1509
Lucania, Thourion. Silver Nomos (7.82 g), ca. 443-400 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing Attic helmet decorated with laurel wreath. Reverse: ΘOYPIΩN, bull butting left; below, E; in exergue, fish right. SNG ANS 943 (same dies); HN Italy 1761. Old cabinet toning. Superb Extremely Fine. Estimate Value $2,000 - 2,500
From the Herbert & Aphrodite Rubin Collection; Ex Stack's (14 September 1983), 21.
Thourion was a colony of panhellenic settlers under Athenian leadership founded near the site of the destroyed city of Sybaris in southern Italy in 446/3 BC. It took its name from a local spring called Thouria and included both the famous historian Herodotos and the orator Lysias among its early colonists. The depiction of Athena on this coin alludes to the Athenian impetus for the colony while the bull serves to personify the rushing waters of Thouria.
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