BRUTTIUM. Hyporon. Circa 300 BC. AE (Bronze, 19 mm, 4.00 g, 12 h). Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. [Υ-Π-Ο-Ρ] Tripod with three ring handles and legs ending in lion's paws; between legs, M-Y. HGC 1, 1413. HN Italy 2269. Leu Numismatik 15 (2021), 77 var. (differing arrangement of reverse legend). Extremely rare. Somewhat rough and with minor deposits, otherwise, about very fine.


The city of Hyporon is only know from its bronze coins, which copy the types from contemporary didrachms from Kroton (HN Italy 2177). Judging from the utmost rarity of this issue, Hyporon can hardly have had much significance and must have been a very small settlement.