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KARYSTOS


No.: 582
d=11 mm

Bronze, um 350 v.Chr.
Kopf des bärtigen Herakles im Löwenskalp rechts.
Rs: [KAP?]. Kopf und Halsabschnitt eines bändergeschmückten Rindes rechts, leicht dem Betrachter zugewandt.
BMC 16. Pozzi 3338 (dieses Exemplar). D.M. Robinson, Excavations at Olynthus, Part III: The Coins found at Olynthus in 1928 (1931), S. 48 und Taf. IX, 151. 0,82 g. St. 7.
Äußerst selten, wohl das dritte bekannte Exemplar.

Physical comparison with a rare bronze issue of Thurium (BMC 140) has shown that this coin does not belong there. This Heracles is older, bearded and has much in common with the early Karystos drachms (see nos. 552 and 553 of this catalogue). Also, the sacrificial fillets are clear on this coin but absent on the Thurium coin. On the other hand, the bent foreleg of the animal in profile is clear on the South Italian coin but not present here. However, there is some similarity to the earliest small bronzes of the League (see catalogue nos. 39 and 40). An important early Karystos bronze, probably the earliest of the city.


Source: Numismatik Lanz München, Auktion 111, Münzen von Euboia, 2002 (http://www.numislanz.de/auktion111/a111.htm)
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