Sale: Triton V, Lot: 85. Estimate $400. Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002. Sold For $410. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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BRUTTIUM. Vibo Valentia (Hipponium) . Circa 192-89 BC. Æ Quadrans (4.15 gm). Bearded head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress; three pellets behind / VALENTIA, two clubs; crescent and three pellets right. M. Taleriercio Mensitieri, "La monetazione di Valentia," in Centro Internazionalle di Numismatica 3, 1989, 33-35; SNG ANS 489ff var. (symbol); BMC Italy pg. 362, 27 var. (same); SNG Copenhagen 1852 var. (same); SNG Morcom 419 var. (same); Laffaille -. EF, attractive dark green patina. ($400)
Ex Frank Sternberg Auktion XI (20-21 November 1981), lot 40.