326. BRUTTIUM, Kroton. Circa 425-350 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 8.01 g, 4h). Eagle with closed wings standing left, head right, on the head of a stag right / Tripod with high neck, legs terminating in lion’s feet; ivy leaf to left, Jro to right. Attianese 104; HN Italy 2146; SNG ANS 351–2; SNG Lloyd 607; Bement 282 = Kraay & Hirmer 269; Boston MFA 183; Gillet 231; Gulbenkian 127; Hunt III 48; Pozzi 743 (all from the same obv. die, except Gillet, which is from both same dies). Near EF, deep cabinet tone, usual minor die break on obverse. ($1500) Ex Schweizerisher Bankverein 38 (12 September 1995), lot 35.
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The Master of the Rhegium Apollo Ex Eddé and Gillet Collections 327. BRUTTIUM, Rhegion. Circa 415/0-387 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22.5mm, 17.34 g, 2h). Dies by “the Master of the Rhegium Apollo”. Facing lion mask / Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath; olive sprig to left, [r˙˝5@]o@ to right. Herzfelder 104 (D62/R89); HN Italy 2496; SNG Fitzwilliam 81 (same dies); Gillet 324 (this coin); Gulbenkian 146 (same dies); de Luynes 794 (same dies). Good VF, toned. Of the finest style in the series. ($75,000) Ex Michel Eddé Collection; The Numismatic Auction [Tradart] 3 (1 December 1985), lot 16; Charles Gillet Collection, 324; Spink & Galerie des Monnaies (10 October 1977), lot 56. This magnificent tetradrachm is from a series at Rhegion that is regarded as having the most finely engraved dies of all the numismatic output of the mint. The earliest phase features dies signed by the artist Kratesippos, but the later unsigned dies, such as were used here, are regarded as the pinnacle of this period at Rhegion. Herzfelder called the engraver of these dies “the Master of the Rhegium Apollo.” While the style of Apollo on these dies was conventionally considered to have been influenced by the “Master of the Leaf” of the slightly earlier issues of Katane, R.R. Holloway suggests that there was actually a common prototype for both issues, which served as a model for coinages as far away as the Chalkidian League. This high period of artistry at Rhegion coincides with the famed issues of the “signing artists” of Sicily, and was only brought to a conclusion with the sack of the city by Dionysios I of Syracuse in 386 BC.
328. BRUTTIUM, Terina. Circa 420-400 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 7.93 g, 1h). Head of the nymph Terina right, hair in sphendone; [tEr5@Å5W@ to right (traces visible)] / Nike seated left on plinth, holding out right hand upon which a small bird alights, left hand resting on plinth. Regling, Terina 67 var. (dies –/δδδ [unlisted obv. die]); Holloway & Jenkins 63 (this coin referenced and illustrated); HN Italy 2617; BMC 27 (same rev. die); Consul Weber 516 (same rev. die). EF, toned. ($30,000) From the collection of Sheikh Saud bin Mohammed al-Thani. Ex “Dove” Collection (Morton & Eden, 9 June 2011), lot 196; Numismatica Ars Classica 10 (9 April 1997), lot 88.
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