River Gods on Greek Coins, Part 1

http://www.magnagraecia.nl/coins/Bruttium_map/Rhegion_map/Rhegion.html
Looking again, the breaks show this is the same coin just labeled as a third. The weight seems light for a full stater but heavy for a third. The site shows a drawing of the other one.

The magnagraecia.nl site is hard to navigate but shows a lot of coins. It says I should be calling my little one a hexas which seems right but I do not know how accurate the site is in general.

 

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You're right, it isn't a stater. According to my notes it is a drachm, presumably as listed by Rutter and Gorini, but it seems too heavy for a drachm. Although, I'm finding some attic drachms in that range online (5.11 closest so far).

 

There was no denomination given on your site, Nicholas. I simply guessed it was a stater, which I shouldn't have done. I notice now it is 5.69 grams, too light for a stater. Sorry!

 

About the denomination of the incuse man-faced bull of Rhegion: this coin was issued on a weight standard used by the Chalcidian poleis of Sicily in the second half of VI c. BC, in particular at Himera, Zankle and Naxos. It is variously called by different scholars: Euboeic (Rutter), Reduced Aeginetan, Calchidian, Euboic-Calchidian (Kraay), Micro-Asian (Parise, Breglia). It is based on a major denomination of about 5.70g, defined as drachm, and fractionals, mostly obols.
The weight standard has near-eastern origins and connection with the archaic coinage of Cyprus, we deal with the issue in Potamikon.




...this specimen, posted by ancientnut, is stored in the Cabinet des Medailles at Paris, from the Dupré collection (5,64g). It is the only known sample of which we have a clear image. A second fragmentary specimen of this drachm was published on an auction catalogue in 1997 (Vecchi auction 5, 1997, lot 81). A third specimen published by Larizza (Larizza P. Rhegium Calcidense, Roma: 1905, p.99) is not anymore considered in numismatic studies as it has been condemned as forgery. (Carroccio Benedetto “Il toro androprosopo,la cicala e l'incuso reggino”, Lugano: 2000, p.48). Here a picture:


This fake specimen was stored at the Civic Museum of Reggio Calabria in south Italy, it went lost on 28 december 1908, after a terrible earthquake and tsunami destroyed the city.

Bye
Nico

 

Welcome @NSisci and interesting input.

 

Here is one from the Jascha Heifetz sale Part 2, #2336 way back in 1989:


Neaopolis Didrachm, c 380-350 BC, SNG ANS 335

I need to reshoot this coin...

John