LUCANIA, Thourioi. Circa 400-350 BC. AR Dinomos – Distater (25mm, 15.96 g, 8h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated on its bowl with Skylla scanning; IΔ behind neck guard / Bull butting right; in exergue, fish right. Noe, Thurian F30 (same dies); HN Italy 1803; SNG Lloyd 486 (same obv. die); SNG Lockett 3489 (this coin); BMC 29 (same dies); Dewing 430 (same obv. die); Gillet 230 (same dies). Toned, faint cleaning marks, graffito (AΠ) on bull. Good VF. From the Wild Rose Collection. Ex Friend of a Scholar Collection (Classical Numismatic Review XLII.1, Winter 2017), no. 410295; Olga H. Knopke Collection (Glendining's, with Baldwin's, 10 December 1986), lot 42; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Greek Part I, Glendining, 25 October 1955), lot 373.
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