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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24721403, member: 26430&quot;]This one would probably be more attractive if it weren&#039;t a bit misshapen or chipped. </p><p><br /></p><p>Rhegion AR Hemilitron (0.31g), c. 440 BCE, from the Elvira Clain-Stefanelli Collection:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1581321[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>Clain-Stefanelli, E. 1987. &quot;On Some Fractional Silver Coinages of Sicily and Magna Graecia during the Fifth Century B.C.&quot; <i>Revue Belge de Numismatique et de Sigillographie </i>CXXXIII (vol. 133): pp. 39-64, Pl. VIII-XIII.</p><p><a href="http://www.numisbel.be/1987_2.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.numisbel.be/1987_2.pdf" rel="nofollow">PDF Available Online</a></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>It was advertised for sale a Litra (like No. 1 in the Fig. above) but it&#039;s actually the&nbsp; smaller and much rarer Hemilitron (0.31g). There have been a few examples in auction catalogs (although none with these control symbols on the reverse), but when Elvira Clain-Stefanelli published this one, the only previously documented example was the Prinz Waldeck (<a href="https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/kundig_muenzhandlung_basel1935_10_01/0095" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/kundig_muenzhandlung_basel1935_10_01/0095" rel="nofollow">Munzhandlung Basel 4, 391</a>) specimen published by <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/339908751/Catalogue-des-tetradrachmes-et-drachmes-de-Rhegion-environ-461-350-av-J-C-Hubert-Herzfelder" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.scribd.com/document/339908751/Catalogue-des-tetradrachmes-et-drachmes-de-Rhegion-environ-461-350-av-J-C-Hubert-Herzfelder" rel="nofollow">Herzfelder in 1957</a>, which was later donated to ANS by E.T. Newell (<a href="http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.8012" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.8012" rel="nofollow">SNG ANS 654</a>).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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