Tetradrachm

Features

Issuer	Rhegion (Bruttium)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	435 BC - 425 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (4)
Currency	Attic drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	17.29 g
Diameter	27 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 429793
References	HN Italy# 2488 Neville Keith Rutter, Andrew Burnett; 2001. Historia numorum: Italy. British Museum, London, United Kingdom. , SNG Lloyd# 681 Peter Bagwell Purefoy, Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume II - The Lloyd Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (4 volumes). , Gillet# 313 . Charles Gillet Collection. , de Luynes# 786-789 Jean Babelon, Louis Ciani (ed.), Jules Florange (ed.). Catalogue de la collection de Luynes - monnaies grecques. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France (4 volumes). , SNG ANS 3# 638-641 Hyla A. Troxell; 1975. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Collection of the American Numismatic Society / Part 3. Bruttium-Sicily 1 (Abacaenum-Eryx). American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States. , Jameson# 455 Robert Jameson. Collection R. Jameson. Feuardent, Paris, France (4 volumes). , SNG Lockett# 649 Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson, Richard Cyril Lockett. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume III - The Lockett Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (5 volumes). , Kraay&Hirm# 287 Colin Mackennal Kraay, Max Hirmer; 1966. Greek Coins. Thames & Hudson, London, United Kingdom. , BostonMFA# 203 Agnes Baldwin Brett; 1955. Catalogue of Greek Coins. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. , BMC Greek# 12 British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes).

Obverse

Lion-mask; symbols: olive-sprig, olive-branch and hare, grapes.

Reverse

Iokastos seated left, sometimes holding vine-tendril, or patera and vine-tendril, or cantharus; symbols : dog, flower-bud and KE, grapes, duck, cat with ball, swan, bird; legend RECINOS or RECINOΣ; all within olive wreath.

Script: Greek (retrograde)

Lettering: RECINOS

Mint

Rhegium, Bruttium, modern-day Reggio Calabria, Italy

Comments

Herzfelder 41-57; De Sartiges 73.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (435 BC - 425 BC)							$ 20 000	$ 20 000

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Examples of the type

de Luynes 788

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de Luynes 787

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de Luynes 789

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de Luynes 786

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SNG ANS 641

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SNG ANS 638

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 154 Lot 1051	19 May 2025	XF	USD 11 901.66 (CHF 9500.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 110 Lot 1	24 Sep 2018	XF	USD 17 539.29 (CHF 14 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 52 Lot 52	7 Oct 2009	XF	USD 16 286.48 (CHF 13 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 25 Lot 45	25 Jun 2003	XF	USD 10 273.01 (CHF 8200.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex NAC 10, 1997, 81
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	The New York Sale Auction 27 Lot 104	4 Jan 2012	XF	USD 95 000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex J. Vinchon, Monte-Carlo, 13 April 1985, lot 60
© The New York Sale
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Nomos AG Auction 38 Lot 184	31 May 2026	VF	USD 27 561.74 (CHF 22 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Nomos AG
	Künker Auction 376 Lot 4282	18 Oct 2022	VF	USD 25 367.54 (EUR 22 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
From collection of Vicomte de Sartiges, ex J. Hirsch FPL XVII, 1907, 342; from collections of Colonel J. Tobin Bush, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 6 November 1902, 24; Robert Tighe, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 8 March 1892, 25 = De Sartiges 73
© Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Osnabrück and Lübke & Wiedemann KG, Leonberg
	Nomos AG Auction 17 Lot 27	26 Oct 2018	VF	USD 10 962.06 (CHF 8750.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Classical Numismatic Group 41, 19 March 1997, 152; Leu 57, 25 May 1993, 14; Monnaies et Médailles 64, 30 January 1984, 21; from collection of C. Gillet = Gillet 313
© Nomos AG
	CNG Triton IX Lot 680	9 Jan 2006	VF	USD 2800.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	CNG Mail Bid Sale 69 Lot 69	8 Jun 2005	VF	USD 6750.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Lockett Collection, Part I (Glendining's, 6 June 1955), lot 531; Sir Arthur Evans Collection = SNG Lockett 649
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.