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From the Gillet Collection

Triton XIV, Lot: 6. Estimate $10000.
Sold for $32500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 340-330 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 7.37 g, 3h). Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath; EΛEYΘEPI[OΣ] to right, Δ to left / Ear of barley with seven grains and leaf to left; to left, crouching Silenos above leaf, [A]Δ below; META to right. Johnston class A, 2.1 (same dies); HN Italy 1557; SNG ANS 451 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 373 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG München 988 (same obv. die); SNG Manchester 202 (same dies); Basel -; Gulbenkian -. EF, as struck, find patina. Struck from exceptional dies.


Ex Münzen und Medaillen 54 (26 October 1978), lot 57; Charles Gillet Collection (photofile), 193.