An Artistic Masterpiece

Triton XVIII, Lot: 319. Estimate $30000. Sold for $55000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Herakleia. Circa 390-340 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 7.94 g, 3h). Head of Athena right, wearing single-pendant earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with Skylla throwing stone held in right hand; EY to right / Herakles standing facing, torso right, strangling the Nemean Lion to right; |-HPAKΛ-EIΩN above, [AΠOΛ] and club to left, oinochoe below. Work 47 (same dies); Van Keuren 51 (same obv. die as illustration); HN Italy 1378; SNG ANS 66; SNG Lloyd –; Basel –; Bement 138 (same obv. die); Gulbenkian –; Hunterian 7 (same dies); McClean 825 (same obv. die); Weber 706 (same dies). Superb EF, toned. From artistic dies. Arguably the finest known.

Ex Leu 88 (5 May 2003), lot 229.