From the Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection
Triton XVII, Lot: 28. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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BRUTTIUM, Kroton. Circa 400-325 BC. AR Nomos (22mm, 7.79 g, 12h). Head of Hera Lakinia facing slightly right, wearing necklace with pendants and stephane decorated with palmettes; Δ to right / Herakles Epitrapezios: young Herakles, nude, holding cup in extended right hand, reclining left on lion skin draped over rock; above, crossed bow and club above MΔ; tripod to left. HN Italy 2164; SNG ANS 382 (same dies); SNG Lloyd –; Dewing –; Pozzi 242 (same dies). Good VF, attractively toned, struck from worn dies. Fine style.
Ex Numismatica Genevensis VII (27 November 2012), lot 137; Leu 74 (19 October 1998), lot 52; Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Part II, 21 June 1990), lot 215.