Description: Bruttium, Skylletion 344 - 336 BC. Male head left, wearing pileus / Scylla swimming left, her right arm raised, holding oar in left hand.

Diameter: AE21 mm

Weight: 8.96 g

Grade: aVF/gF

Attribution: SNG Cop. 1992 (Skylletion); SNG Morcom 878; Virzi 457 (Skylletion)

Commentary: rare; dark patina, some roughness

History: Scylla was a monster living inside a rock on one side of a narrow channel of water (most probably the Strait of Messina), opposite her counterpart Charybdis.

Article Number: 020-07-02-44287