From High Relief Dies of Exceptional Artistic Merit

Triton XIV, Lot: 12. Estimate $20000. Sold for $45000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Terina. Circa 400-356 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 7.41 g, 7h). Head of the nymph Terina right, wearing triple-pendant earring and beaded necklace; TEPINAIΩN to right / Nike seated left on plinth, holding out right hand upon which a small bird alights, left hand resting on plinth. Regling, Terina 78 (dies MM/οοο); Holloway & Jenkins 84 (same obv. die); HN Italy 2629; SNG ANS 852 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 761-2 (same obv. die); BMC 41 = GPCG p. 46, 25 (same dies); Basel 242; Gulbenkian 154 (same obv. die). Superb EF, toned, minor die break on reverse. From high relief dies of the finest style.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 125 (13 October 2003), lot 43 (€12,500 hammer).