CLASSICAL COINS
LOCRIS
LOCRI OPUNTII
Stater, about 350-340 BC. AR 12.13 g. Head of Demeter l., crowned with ears of corn; she wears a triple- pendant earring and a necklace. Rev. OPON - TIWN Ajax the Locrian, nude but for a crested Corinthian helmet, advancing r. on rocky ground, holding short sword in his r. hand, large round shield decorated on its interior with griffin prancing r. in his l. hand; at his feet, spear and laurel branch. Traité pl. CCVI,23. J. Morineau Humphris and D. Delbridge, The Coinage of the Opountian Lokrians (2014),62,124 (these dies).
Good style. High relief. Almost extremely fine Provenance: P. Arnaud collection and auction Hess-Divo AG, Zürich 307 (2007), 1165.