Ex Lockett and Weber

CNG 87, Lot: 173. Estimate $1000. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Thourioi. Circa 350-300 BC. AR Distater (26mm, 15.57 g, 1h). Helmeted head of Athena right, helmet decorated with Skylla throwing stone / Bull butting right; ΣIM above, race torch in exergue. Noe, Thurian L10 = SNG Lockett 496 = Weber 883 (this coin); HN Italy 1842; SNG ANS -; McClean 1269 (same obv. die). Good VF, toned, minor flan flaw on obverse. Very rare, the only example recorded from these dies.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Triton I (23 June 1999), lot 136; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Glendining's, 25 October 1955), lot 379; Naville IV (17 June 1922), lot 105; Hermann Weber Collection, no. 883.