CNG 90, Lot: 305. Estimate $1500. Sold for $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Herakleia. Circa 340-330 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 7.74 g, 8h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with Skylla hurling a stone and palmette on the neck guard, and single-pendant earring; Δ, K, and Φ before / Herakles wrestling the Nemean Lion; club and KAΛ to left, |-HPAKΛH[IΩN] to right; between legs, owl standing right, head facing. Van Keuren 50; HN Italy 1377; SNG ANS 64; SNG Lloyd –; Basel 109; Gulbenkian 54 (same rev. die). Good VF, toned, graffito ‘A’ on reverse. Fine style. Rare.

From the Deyo Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 40 (with Numismatica Ars Classica, 4 December 1990), lot 604.