Ex Moretti, Johns Hopkins University, Garrett, Bement, and Bunbury Collections

Triton XIV, Lot: 1. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

APULIA, Venusia. Circa 210-200 BC. Æ Nomos (34mm, 31.05 g, 11h). Head of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath and earring; ligate VE to left / Dionysos seated left, holding grape bunch in right hand and filleted thyrsos in left; N•I to right. Burnett 4.2; HN Italy 719; SNG Morcom 237; SNG ANS 758; SNG Lloyd –; Basel 65 = T.L. Comparette, A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek Coins Selected from the Cabinet of Clarence S Bement Esq. (New York, 1921), 9 (this coin); Gulbenkian –. green patina, a few cleaning scratches. Good VF. Rare large bronze denomination for this city.

Ex Spink 200 (1 October 2009), lot 828; Antikenmuseum Basel Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 13, 8 October 1998), lot 65; Athos D. Moretti Collection, 222bis; Johns Hopkins University Collection, inv. 44.5.32 (Part II, Numismatic Fine Arts & Bank Leu, 16 October 1984), lot 97; John Work Garrett Collection, inv. G1074; Clarence S. Bement Collection; Sir Edward Bunbury Collection (Part I, Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 15 June 1896), lot 67 (part of).