CNG 90, Lot: 331. Estimate $7500. Sold for $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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BRUTTIUM, Rhegion. Circa 415/0-387 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 16.10 g, 6h). Facing lion head / Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath; olive sprig to left, PHΓINON to right. Cf. Herzfelder 72-104 (dies not recorded); HN Italy 2496; SNG ANS 657. EF, lightly toned. Boldly struck in exceptionally high relief.
Ex Ronald Cohen Collection (Triton VIII, 11 January 2005), lot 52; Tkalec (24 October 2003), lot 23.