CNG 93, Lot: 45. Estimate $500. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Terina. Circa 425-420 BC. AR Nomos (19mm, 7.57 g, 6h). Head of the nymph Terina right, hair in ampyx; [tiny Φ behind neck] / Nike, holding kerykeion and bird, seated right on hydria. Regling, Terina 29 (dies R/γγ); Holloway & Jenkins 35; HN Italy 2589; BMC 11; Jameson 474 (all from the same dies). VF, attractively toned, struck with worn obverse die. Exquisite composition to reverse type, known from a single die.

Ex Herbert Cahn Collection.

This was the final issue to use this obverse die, which had previously been paired with four other reverse dies. Most examples, including Jameson, exhibit similarly degraded obverses.