245, Lot: 11. Estimate $300. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Thourioi. Circa 443-400 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 7.08 g, 1h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested helmet decorated with olive branch; A above visor / Bull butting left; below, bird alighting left; in exergue, fish left. HN Italy 1772; SNG ANS 954-6. Good VF, toned, some roughness.

Ex Coin Galleries (10 November 1987), lot 48.

Seltman, in Masterpieces of Greek Coinage, says these dies are by Phrygillos. The bird under the bull may be a pun for “finch,” the first three letters of which appear on other coins in this series.