Triton XVI, Lot: 182. Estimate $750. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Herakleia. Circa 420/15-390 BC. AR Nomos (19mm, 8.02 g, 10h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with hippocamp; small retrograde Σ to lower left / Herakles standing right, wrestling the Nemean Lion; club and bow to left, HPAKΛEI[ΩN] to right, Φ below. Van Keuren 7; Work 18; HN Italy 1372; SNG ANS 53; SNG Lloyd –; BMC 12; Dewing 340; de Luynes 424; Rutter, Greek 25 (all from the same dies). VF, toned, die break on reverse. Well centered strike.

Ex Frederick M. Bayer Collection (New York Sale VII, 15 January 2004), lot 6; Münzen und Medaillen GmbH 8 (10 May 2001), lot 14; A. Hess (14 April 1954), lot 29.