BRUTTIUM, Terina. Circa 440-425 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 7.64 g, 8h). Good VF.

CNG Feature Auction 133
Lot: 63. Estimated: $ 2 000

Greek, Coin-in-Hand Video, Silver

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BRUTTIUM, Terina. Circa 440-425 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 7.64 g, 8h). Head of the nymph Terina left, wearing ampyx, within laurel wreath / Nike seated left on amphora, holding wreath and kerykeion. Regling, Terina 7 (dies F/ζ); Holloway & Jenkins 12; HN Italy 2575. Beautiful old cabinet tone with slight iridescence, light marks under tone. Good VF.

From Collection JLT. Ex Goldberg 91 (7 June 2016), lot 1713; Riche Collection (Part 1, R. Ratto, 25 January 1926), lot 808.

The high artistry evident on Terina’s coinage seems out of all proportion to any historical accounts for this city atop the “toe” of Italy, which so thoroughly disappeared from record that no systematic excavations were undertaken on its site until 1997. Its coinage has been known and collected since the Renaissance, where the delicate beauty of its female heads and the graceful seated Nikes were greatly admired. As author R. R. Holloway noted, “the nymphs of Terina recalled the maidens of the Parthenon frieze and the Victories of the reverses were the numismatic counterparts of the Victories of the Nike Temple balustrade.”

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