Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 22. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $775. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAMPANIA, Suessa Aurunca. Circa 265-240 BC. Æ Obol (7.19 gm, 7h).PRBOVM (sic), head of Hermes left, wearing winged petasos / SVESANO left, Herakles standing facing, turned slightly right, fighting the Nemean lion; club between legs. SNG Morcom 183 var. (obverse legend); SNG France 1161 (same dies); SNG ANS 599; SNG Copenhagen 582 var. (obverse legend); HN Italy 448 var. (same); Laffaille 19 var. (same); Sambon 87. EF, attractive green patina, fine style, very minor roughness. ($500)

Ex David Freedman Collection (Triton V, January 15, 2002), lot 32; Sternberg XI (20-21 November 1981), lot 18.