CROTON SILVER STATER – RARE VARIETY WITH TRIPOD AND SNAKE SYMBOL – CHOICE VF FINE STYLE NGC GRADED GREEK BRUTTIUM COIN (Inv. 20139)

$1,350.00

20169. BRUTTIUM. CROTON. Ca. 350–300 BC.
Silver Stater, 8.28 g, 21 mm.
Obv. [ΚΡΟ]ΤΩΝ[ΙΑΤΩΝ], eagle with spread wings standing left, holding laurel branch in its talons. Rev. Decorated tripod with lion feet, barley ear in left field, snake in right field.
HN Italy 2149; HGC 1, 1465; SNG ANS 355–356.
NGC graded CHOICE VF, Strike 4/5, Surface 3/5, “flan flaws,” a particularly rare variety with the snake symbol, with only eight specimens on CoinArchives.

Nomos circa 360-340, AR 22 mm, 7.85 g. [ΚΡΟΤΩΝΙΑΤΩΝ] Eagle with spread wings standing l., holding branch in its r. talons. Rev. Tripod on a large base, the bowl of which has a conical cover in the shape of a lotus- flower; two knotted fillets hang from the side-handles of the tripod. In field l., ear of barley and in field r., snake. AMB 202 (this obverse die). SNG Ashmolean 1514. SNG Lockett 628. Historia Numorum Italy 2149 (this obverse die).