Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 27. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Kroton. Circa 400-325 BC. AR Nomos (7.76 g, 1h). Head of Hera Lakinia facing slightly right, wearing stephane decorated with central palmette flanked by two griffins / KRO-TWNI-[AT]WN, Herakles Epitrapezios: young Herakles, nude, holding cup in extended right hand, club in left, reclining left on lion skin draped over rock; bow below. Attianese 136; HN Italy 2167 corr. (ethnic); SNG ANS 374 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 616 (same dies); SNG Ashmolean 1521 (same dies). Good VF, toned, minor roughness. Struck from artistic dies.

From Collection C.G. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 63 (21 May 2003), lot 64; Leu 20 (25-26 April 1978), lot 18 @ 15,400 Sfr.

The type of Herakles Epitrapezios (lit. "Herakles at the table") shows the hero reclining in the midst of his labors, enjoying a relaxing cup of wine. Phyllis Lehmann, in Statues on coins of Southern Italy and Sicily in the classical period (New York: H. Bittner & Co., 1946), makes a connection between the coin type and a series of later statues in the manner of Lysippos, linking both to a common source, probably an earlier statue at the temple of Hera Lakinia at Kroton, one of the most prominant sanctuaries in Italy