Exceptional Rhegion Tetradrachm

Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 40. Estimate $50000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $41800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Rhegion. Circa 415/0-387 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.30 g, 9h). Facing lion’s head / PHΓINON, head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath; olive sprig behind. Herzfelder 95 (D56/R80); HN Italy 2496; SNG ANS 662 (same dies); McClean 1873 (same obv. die); Bement 758 (same dies). Choice EF, toned. Well centered and struck on excellent metal.

Ex Leu 33 (3 May 1983), lot 213.