Ex Vlasto & Burel Collections

CNG 93, Lot: 23. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 276-272 BC. AV Hemistater (14mm, 4.25 g, 11h). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand, reins in left, driving fast biga right; AP monogram below. Fischer-Bossert G27a (V23/R27) = Vlasto 33 (this coin); HN Italy 985. VF, minor ghosting obverse. Extremely rare, one of four listed by Fischer-Bossert.

Ex Michel Pandely Vlasto Collection, 33; Gustave Burel Collection (Feuardent, 11 June 1913), lot 27.