Sale: Nomos 2, Lot: 16. Estimate CHF5500.  Closing Date: Monday, 17 May 2010.  Sold For CHF4400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Rhegion. Circa 450-445 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 17.16 g 11). Lion’s mask facing. Rev. RECI NOS (partially retrograde) Iokastos seated left on backless stool, holding long scepter in his right hand; all within olive wreath. Herzfelder 3 (obverse) and 2bis (reverse). HN III 2477. Toned and with a bold obverse in high relief. Good very fine.

Acquired from E. J. Waddell in 2003.