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An Early Incuse Stater of Kroton Overstruck on a Pegasus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2015

P.J. Bicknell
P.J. Bicknell*
Affiliation:
Monash University
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Extract

The Corinthian piece belongs to the early series of pegasi with incuse pattern reverse. Due to the flattening of the under-type, a confident identification with one of the obverses illustrated by Ravel is impossible.

It has been claimed that there are no examples of overstriking of the earliest wide-flan staters of Magna Graecia on pegasi. This contention is now invalidated as far as Kroton is concerned.

Type
Research Article
Information
Antichthon , Volume 3 , 1969 , pp. 1 - 4
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 1969

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References

1 Milne, J.G., Greek Coinage, pp. 31 ff.Google Scholar

2 Sutherland, C.H.V., NC 1942, 7ff.;Google ScholarMN iii, 15ff.

3 Kraay, C.M., NC 1960, 71ff.Google Scholar

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10 See Hdt. vi 21.1 and Athenaios 591 b.

11 Lindian Chronicle 26.

12 On a possible Metapontion to Poseidonia overland route and the significance of the discoveries at Serra di Vaglio see Napoli, M., ‘La documentazione archeologica in Lucania’ in Atti del Primo Convegno di studi sulla Magna Grecia (Taranto, 1961), pp. 195–219.Google Scholar

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14 The incuse fabric, designed to deter export of coins from Magna Graecia, was perhaps devised by the Sybarites’ Etruscan friends (see Athenaios 519 c and Iamblichos, Vit. Pythag. 267) who were adept metal workers.

15 The notion, popularized by Seltman (for his last statement of it see NC 1949, 1–21) that Pythagoras actually devised the fabric and even cut the first Krotoniate dies will finally be exorcized, if the first coins of Kroton are indeed later than those of Sybaris and Metapontion.

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