CENTRAL ITALY, Uncertain. Early 1st century BC. Æ (18mm, 3.92 g, 3h).Electronic Auction 494 Greek, Bronze Sold For $ 60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CENTRAL ITALY, Uncertain. Early 1st century BC. Æ (18mm, 3.92 g, 3h). Wreathed head of young Dionysus right / Panther standing right, head facing, holding thrysus in jaws; grain ear below. Stannard & Sinner, “A Central Italian Coin with Dionysus/Panther Types, and Contacts Between Central Italy and Spain, in the 2nd and 1st Centuries BC,” in Saguntum 46 (2014), p. 159-180, fig. 1, 1-6; HN Italy 2673; SNG Milano II, p. 80, 17. Coppery red surfaces, somewhat weakly struck and off-center. Good Fine. Rare. |