Triton XVI, Lot: 189. Estimate $2500. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Thourioi. Circa 350-300 BC. AR Nomos (18mm, 7.82 g, 6h). Head of Athena right, wearing Attic helmet decorated with Skylla hurling a stone, small Σ on neck guard / Bull advancing right; ΘOYPIΩN above, two dolphins confronted in exergue. HN Italy 1820; SNG ANS –; SNG Lloyd –; SNG Ashmolean 287 (same dies); Dewing –. EF, attractive gray toning with light iridescent hue around the devices. Rare.

From the RCM Collection. Ex Triton VIII (11 January 2005), lot 42; Rauch 73 (17 May 2004), lot 65.