Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 39. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $5250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Rhegion. Circa 425-420 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.10 g, 10h). Facing lion's head / Iokastos (or Aristaios?) seated left, holding scepter; grape bunch on vine to right; all within laurel wreath. Herzfelder 61 (D35/R50); HN Italy 2491; SNG Lloyd 685 (same dies); SNG München 1578 (same dies); Winterthur 529 = Pozzi 324 (same dies); de Luynes 789 (same dies). Good VF, struck in high relief, lightly toned with slight iridescence around the lion’s head, minor edge split, light graffito (ΠYR-Λ) under tone on reverse.

From the Paul H. Gerrie Collection. Ex Cederlind 122 (28 June 2001), no. 11.