BRUTTIUM. Kaulonia. Circa 525-500 BC. Nomos (Silver, 29 mm, 7.34 g, 12 h). KAYΛ Apollo, nude, striding right, holding laurel branch in his upraised right hand and, on his outstretched left arm, small figure of a daimon running right, holding branch in each hand and with his head turned back to left; to right, stag standing right, head to left; in field to right, O; all within cable border.
Rev. Apollo, nude, striding left, holding laurel branch in his upraised right hand and extending his left arm; to left, stag standing left, head to right; all incuse except for the branch and stag's antlers; in field to left, O; all within rayed border. Boston MFA 170 (
same dies). HN Italy 2036. Noe, Caulonia, Group B, 22 (
same dies). SNG Cambridge 724 (
same dies). Well struck and of lovely style. Minor roughness on the reverse
, otherwise, nearly extremely fine.
Ex Astarte XIX, 6 May 2006, 746 and Sternberg 35, 29 October 2000, 176.