294, Lot: 18. Estimate $150. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Skylletion. Circa 350-325(?) BC. Æ (20mm, 6.49 g, 12h). Beardless male head left, wearing pileus / Scylla swimming left, her right arm raised, holding oar in left hand. HN Italy 2565; CNS III p. 319, 1 OS/6 (under “unidentified mercenaries”); SNG ANS 800; SNG Copenhagen 1993 (same dies). Fine, dark green patina. Rare.

From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection. Ex Gustav Philipsen Collection (Part I, J. Hirsch XV, 28 May 1906), lot 877.