Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 22. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Thourioi. Circa 350-300 BC. AR Nomos (7.43 g, 5h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with Skylla holding trident / QOURIW[N], bull butting right; in exergue, dolphin right and c/m: incuse ‘E’. HN Italy 1817; SNG ANS 1047 (same dies); SNG Lloyd -; SNG Ashmolean 1057 (same dies). Good VF, lightly toned, minor die break on reverse.

Ex M&M Numismatics FPL 1 (April 1997), no. 6.

In the field above the bull are traces of the letter D which appears to have been erased in the die.