Artistic Terina Nomos

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 32. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Terina. Circa 420-400 BC. AR Nomos (7.51 g, 4h). TERI-NA-O-N, head of female (the nymph Terina?) left, wearing ampyx and necklace / Nike seated left on cippus, resting right hand on long caduceus; A to upper left, P on cippus. Holloway & Jenkins 48 (same dies as illustration); HN Italy 2603; cf. SNG ANS 825 (same obv. die); SNG Lloyd -; SNG Ashmolean -. Near EF, toned, die break on reverse. Fine style.

From the W.B. and R.E. Montgomery Collection. Ex Triton V (15 January 2002), lot 1148; Classical Numismatic Group Auction 50 (23 June 1999), lot 457.