Sale: CNG 60, Lot: 64. Estimate $300. Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2002. Sold For $235. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Lot of three Greek AR diobols. Includes the following: Calabria, Tarentum. Head of Athena left, wearing Attic helmet decorated with hippocamp / Herakles wrestling the Nemean lion; club to left, L between Herakles' legs. Vlasto 1278 (same dies); SNG ANS 1379 var. // Lucania, Herakleia. Bearded head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Lion standing right. Van Keuren 23; SNG ANS 5 var. // Lucania, Herakleia. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Lion standing right. Van Keuren 28 (same dies); SNG ANS 8-9. All coins fine to VF, light porosity. Three (3) coins in lot. ($300)
The first, ex Asta Internazionale Del Titano Auction 50 (19 September 1992), lot 23. The second, ex Kunst und Münzen Liste 70 (June 1995), lot 26a. The third, ex Aes Rude Auktion 3 (3-4 November 1978), lot 36.