From the Antikenmuseum Basel and Moretti Collections

Triton XIV, Lot: 1. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

APULIA, Venusia. Circa 210-200 BC. Æ Nomos (34mm, 31.05 g, 11h). Head of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath and earring; ligate VE to left / Dionysos seated left, holding grape bunch in right hand and filleted thyrsos in left; N•I to right. Burnett 4.2; HN Italy 719; SNG Morcom 237; SNG ANS 758; SNG Lloyd -; Basel 65 (this coin); Gulbenkian -. Good VF, green patina, a few cleaning scratches. Rare large bronze denomination for this city.

Ex Antikenmuseum Basel Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 13, 8 October 1998), lot 65; Athos D. Moretti Collection.