Lot 11: Lucania, Thourioi. Ca. 443-400 B.C. AR nomos. 
AUCTION: Triskeles - Auction 25 (Auction 332)
- Sold Winning Bid: $160
- 5 Bid(s)
Lucania, Thourioi. Ca. 443-400 B.C. AR nomos (21 mm, 7.65 g). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet adorned with wreath / ΘOYPIΩ[N], bull advancing right; in exergue, fish right. SNG ANS 900-14; HN Italy 1775. Light porosity on reverse. Good fine.
From the Expatriate Collection. Ex W. F. Stoecklin Collection.
The Stoecklin Family Collection was formed over manygenerations beginning with Sebastian Ros, who was born in Slovenia in 1839 and workedas a civil engineer. He found ancient coins as he helped to lay railway linesthroughout the Balkans. Walter Friedrich Stoecklin was born in Bulgaria in 1888and became a medical doctor working for the Red Cross during the Balkan Wars in1913, when he met his future wife, Sebastian Ros’s daughter, Jerica, who was anurse. Walter and Jerica had a son, Walter Mirko Stoecklin, who collected coinswith his father and also become a medical doctor in Switzerland 1950. Dr. W. F.Stoecklin died in 1975, and Walter Mirko Stoecklin died in 1981, which ended theStoecklin family collection.
- Offered By: Barry P. Murphy
- Lot #: 11
- Listing #: 223655
- Closed: Friday, September 28, 2018 4:01:40 PM CT
- Estimate: $150
- Collection: Expatriate Collection