BRUTTIUM. Rhegion. Circa 415/10-387 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 24 mm, 17.21 g, 6 h). Lion’s head facing, with both eyes looking to his right. Rev. ΡΗΓΙΝΟΝ Laureate head of Apollo to right; behind, olive sprig of two leaves. Herzfelder 82. HN III 2496. Very rare. Well struck in high relief with a beautiful head of Apollo in the finest late 5th century style. Beautifully detailed and with an attractive dark tone as found . Beginning of a die break below Apollo's neck on the reverse - as found on all the few known coins struck from this die, otherwise, extremely fine.

From the collection of M. Price, Stack's 3 December 1996, 7 ( but the reference given there to Herzfelder is inexplicably wrong ) .

The head of Apollo on the reverse of this coin is one of the finest to appear on the late 5th century coinage of Region. It shows Apollo with a noble and serene delicacy of features that are quite different from those on the majority of the other dies. The quality of the engraving is simply outstanding in every way: it is likely that the die break on the edge caused the die to fail soon after this coin was struck, thus explaining the remarkable rarity of this die pair.