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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancientnut, post: 2544724, member: 73212&quot;]Difficult choice for me as well, but on June 11 I started a thread entitled &quot;My New Favorite Coin&quot; with this one, so I&#039;ll stick with it for awhile:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]545834[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Thurium, Lucania, AR Double Nomos or Distater, c 413-412 BC, 23 mm, 15.21 g, 2h. OBV: Head of Athena right. The hair on her forehead resembles ocean waves and might represent the coast of Thurium. She is wearing a crested Attic helmet, the bristles of which are attached to double lines, the upped dotted, the lower solid. The bowl of her helmet is decorated with Skylla, the sea monster Odysseus’ ship encountered on his journey back from the Trojan War, where she devoured six of his sailors. She raises her left arm to scan for ships. Her lower body is of a sea serpent, with spikes atop the curve and a fish tail. She has two dog heads protruding from her waist, with which to devour sailors. On the neck guard of the helmet, griffin standing right; Φ (Greek letter phi, signature of engraver Phrygillos) in upper right field / REV: City ethnic above bull butting right on double exergual lines, upper solid, lower dotted; in exergue, fish swimming right. S.P. Noe, The Thurian Di-Staters, ANS NNM 71 (1935), 39, B2j (first die with Skylla) = SNG ANS 957 (same dies); HN Italy 1781.</p><p>Purchased 7 June 2016 in Ira &amp; Larry Goldberg Auction 91, lot 1772.</p><p>From the JTB Numismatic Collection, 688.</p><p>Ex: Hess-Divo AG, Auction 317, 27 October 2010, lot 27.</p><p>Ex: Munzen &amp; Medaillen GmbH (Stuttgart), Auction 10, 22 March 2002, lot 147.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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