Triton XVI, Lot: 174. Estimate $500. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 450-380 BC. AR Diobol (12mm, 1.18 g, 9h). Head of Athena right, wearing helmet decorated with Skylla throwing a stone / Herakles crouching right, strangling the Nemean Lion; on the Lion’s back, owl standing left, head facing; [club to left]. Vlasto 1323–4; HN Italy 976; SNG ANS 1413 (same rev. die); SNG Lloyd 245; Dewing –. EF, lightly toned, some deposits on obverse. Wonderful strike for issue.