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Triton XIX, Lot: 20. Estimate $2000.
Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Velia. Circa 300-280 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 7.50 g, 2h). Philistion group. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with griffin and wreath; A behind neck guard, [Φ before neck] / Lion standing right; above, dolphin between I and Φ; YEΛHTΩ[N] in exergue. Williams 446b (O222/R313 – this coin); HN Italy 1307; SNG ANS 1376 (same rev. die); SNG Ashmolean 1339/1334 (same obv./rev. die); SNG Lockett 565 (same rev. die); SNG München 882 (same rev. die); McClean 1459 (same rev. die). Good VF, even dark toning.


Ex Nomos FPL (with Classical Numismatic Group, Winter-Spring 2015), no. 6; Cahn 71 (14 October 1931), lot 76; Helbing 55 (8 November 1928), lot 4314; Ars Classica XII (18 October 1926), lot 517.