Ex Gustav Philipsen Collection

294, Lot: 16. Estimate $300. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Rhegion. Circa 450-445 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 4.13 g, 12h). Facing lion’s head / Iokastos seated left, holding scepter; all within laurel wreath. Herzfelder 28 (D17/R24); HN Italy 2478; SNG Lloyd 686 (same dies). Near VF, toned, area of flat strike on reverse. Rare.

From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection. Ex Gustav Philipsen Collection (Part I, J. Hirsch XV, 28 May 1906), lot 849.