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Archaios Bronze Coin (Onkia) of Kamarina in Sicily , Circa 420-405 BC.
Obverse: Gorgon/Medusa Head facing, Flowing hair and open mouth showing teeth !
Reverse: Owl standing right on one leg, head facing, grasping a lizard with other talon, Ethnic KAMA to left; one pellet (as mark of value) in exergue; Greek Letter 'Γ' (Gamma) to right of lizard.
Mint: Kamarina, Sicily
Size: 12 mm
Weight: 1.26 g
Ref: HGC 2 (Sicily),552. Rarity R1 ! ; SNG Cop --;
Inventory:1909.33.17 ; 59.1206
Condition:Good aVF/gF, Nice example of this fascinating coin type rated R1 (Rare) for this smaller denomination than normal tetra/trionkia. ( cf. CNG 436, Lot: 71 - Estimate:$150; and Künker 133, Lot: 7179 - Est:150 EUR ) Use the Picture as your judge as grading is subjective.
Notes:
Kamarina (Camarina) was a colony of Syracuse, founded circ. B.C. 599, between the mouths of the Oanis and the Hipparis rivers, on the south coast of Sicily. In consequence of a revolt against Syracuse it was destroyed by that city about B.C. 552. In B.C. 495 it was rebuilt and recolonized by Hippocrates, tyrant of Gela, but again destroyed about B.C. 484 by Gelon, tyrant of Syracuse.
The city was once more rebuilt as a colony of Gela in B.C. 461, and from this time until the removal of its citizens to Syracuse in B.C. 405 it enjoyed great prosperity. Pindar’s fourth Olympian ode and the ode which follows it record the victory of Psaumis the Camarinaean in the chariot race B.C. 456 or 452, an agonistic victory which Poole (Coins of Camarina, p. 2) believed to be commemorated on the tetradrachms of Camarina, struck during the latter half of the fifth century.
Excerpts taken from Head Hist. Num., and Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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