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Triton XVIII, Lot: 311. Estimate $1500.
Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAMPANIA, Neapolis. 395-385 BC. AR Nomos (19mm, 7.26 g, 7h). Head of female right, hair in broad band, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace / Man-headed bull walking left, head facing; above, Nike flying left, crowning him with open wreath held in both hands; [retrograde NEOΠOΛITHΣ in exergue]. Rutter 152 (O98/R137); HN Italy 563; BMC 35 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 389 (same dies). Good VF, toned, minor porosity. Fine style and well struck.


From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex LHS 95 (25 October 2005), lot 429.

The obverse die of this issue was also used to strike coins at Nola (Nola obv. die 7).