Rare Hyria Nomos from the Tinchant Collection

Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 138. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAMPANIA, Hyria. Circa 395-385 BC. AR Nomos (7.31 g, 10h). Head of Hera Lakinia facing slightly right, wearing stephane decorated with central palmette flanked by two griffins; Γ to right of stephane / Man-headed bull standing right on single exergue line. Rutter 134 (O47/R120); HN Italy 540; Jameson 41 (same dies); Hunterian 17 (same dies). Near VF, toned, flan crack. Rare.

Ex P. Tinchant Collection (“R.J. Graham,” Schulman 243, 8 June 1966), lot 1037.