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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herodotus, post: 7845928, member: 111387&quot;]Ooh, nice coin!!! </p><p><br /></p><p>In further researching of the type, yours seems less common.&nbsp; The bull is facing right, which would usually indicate that the coin was minted after 400 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, (on your coin)Athena&#039;s helmet is decorated with a laurel wreath (rather than a Skylla in later types); indicating that your coin is pre-400 B.C.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve only been able to find a couple of examples like yours available at auction in recent times.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yours being one of them sold @Triton XXIII</p><p><br /></p><p>CNG&#039;s attribution refers to the &#039;H&#039; as a Z with the [N] off of the flan.</p><p><img src="https://www.cngcoins.com/Photos.AM/4-7MO74/4-7O2IN.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><i><b>LUCANIA, Thourioi. </b>Circa 443-400 BC. AR Double Nomos – Distater (24.5mm, 15.47 g, 9h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with laurel wreath / Bull butting right on plain ground line; ΘOYPIΩ[N] above, Z to right; all within shallow incuse square. Noe, Thurian, Group A, 2 (same obv. die as illustration); Jörgensen 19; HN Italy 1762; BMC 1 (same obv. die); Basel 173 = Gillet 217 = Kunstfreund 70 (same obv. die); Sternberg XVI, lot 35 (same dies). Darkly toned, underlying luster. Good VF. From the first issue of double nomoi. Extremely rare.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>From the B. G. Collection. Ex Leu 86 (5 May 2003), lot 247.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Apologies if derailing the thread a little, but perhaps the above type is one of the earliest to incorporate &#039;Ω&#039; in place of &#039;Ο&#039;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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