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Stater
| Issuer | Poseidonia |
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| Year | 420 BC - 410 BC |
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| Currency | Phocaean/Campanian Drachm |
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| Reverse description | A bull standing to left, rendered in fine detail with the body in profile, occupying the central field; the retrograde ethnic inscription ΠΟΜΕΣΔΑΝ is disposed above the animal. The entire design is set within a deep circular incuse square, a hallmark of the archaic and transitional incuse coinage tradition of Magna Graecia, here persisting into the early Classical period at Poseidonia. The incuse technique creates a mirror-image relief against the recessed background, lending the type a characteristic sculptural quality. |
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| Mintage | ND (420 BC - 410 BC) |
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Poseidonia — the Greek colonial city on the Tyrrhenian coast of Lucania, later renamed Paestum by the Romans — was striking these staters at a moment of intensifying pressure from surrounding Lucanian tribes, who would ultimately seize the city around 390 BC. The incuse technique characteristic of earlier South Italian coinage had by this period given way to the relief style seen here, a shift that places this piece within the transitional output of the mint's most artistically ambitious phase.
The Weber and De Luynes provenance citations alone signal a long auction history among serious collectors of Magna Graecia coinage.