294, Lot: 17. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Rhegion. Circa 420-415/0 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 15.95 g, 1h). Reverse die signed by the artist Kratesippo(s). Facing lion’s head / Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath; olive sprig behind, ΣIΠΠO/KPATE below chin (only very faint traces visible). Herzfelder 63f (D36a/R52 – this coin); HN Italy 2494; SNG ANS 657; SNG Lloyd 696; SNG Lockett 657 = Bement 317; Jameson 460; de Luynes 798 (all from the same dies). VF/Fine, darkly toned, old scratches on reverse. Rare.

From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection. Ex J. Hirsch XXXIII (17 November 1913), lot 265; Eduard Friedrich Weber Collection (Part II, J. Hirsch XXIV, 10 May 1909), lot 3365.