294, Lot: 242. Estimate $200. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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BRUTTIUM, Kroton. Circa 400-325 BC. AR Nomos (19mm, 7.91 g, 5h). Head of Hera Lakinia facing slightly right, wearing necklace and stephane decorated with palmette and two griffin foreparts / Herakles Epitrapezios: young Herakles, nude, holding cup, reclining left on lion’s skin draped over rock; bow and club above. HN Italy 2160; SNG ANS 378 (same dies). VF, once holed at 12 o’clock on obverse, since expertly repaired.
Ex G. Hirsch 167 (26 September 1990), lot 140.