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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;svessien, post: 24613267, member: 15481&quot;]I was really stoked to unwrap a new coin today, and finding it looked far better than the auction picture. It is a really neat stater of late archaic style, from Caulonia in Bruttium:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1564478[/ATTACH] </p><p>Bruttium, Caulonia: Nomos circa 450-445 BC </p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: Naked Apollo standing r., holding branch in raised r. hand: on extended l. arm small running figure. In field r., stag with head turned back.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse: Stag standing r..; in field r., two branches.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reference: Noe Caulonia Group F. Historia Numorum Italy 2046. Sear AG&amp;RC p.88</p><p><br /></p><p>AR 21.00 mm., 7.45 g. Old cabine tone and Good Very fine</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Caulonia was an ancient Greek city in southern Italy, southernmost of the colonies founded in Italy by the Achaeans. Established perhaps in the first half of the 7th century BC, Caulonia was an outpost of Croton. Judging from its copious and beautiful coinage from the second half of the 6th century, it seems to have been of some importance despite its small size. After capture by Campanian troops during the invasion (280–275) by Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, and then submission to Hannibal in 215, the city withstood a siege (209) on Hannibal’s side in the Second Punic War, but its fortunes declined soon after.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><u>Please show your coinage from Bruttium!</u>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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