Triton XVII, Lot: 12. Estimate $7500. Sold for $11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Herakleia. Circa 390-340 BC. AR Nomos (23mm, 7.71 g, 12h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with Skylla hurling stone, and triple-pendant earring; Δ/Κ/Φ before face / Herakles standing facing, upper torso turned right, wrestling with the Nemean Lion; club and ΚΑΛ to left, |-HPAKΛHIΩN to right; between Herakles' legs, owl standing right. Van Keuren 50; Work 32 (same dies); HN Italy 1377; SNG ANS 62 (same dies); SNG Lloyd –; De Luynes 425 (same dies); Gulbenkian 54 (same rev. die); Jameson 233 (same dies). Good VF, lightly toned, minor deposits, light cut at rim on obverse. Well centered on an exceptionally broad flan.

Ex Numismatica Genevensis VII (27 November 2012), lot 126; Triton III (30 November 1999), lot 54.