Extremely Rare Issue

CNG 99, Lot: 13. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Thourioi. Circa 300 BC. AR Nomos (21.5mm, 7.91 g, 9h). Head of Athena left, wearing helmet decorated with Skylla pointing and holding rudder; TIMO behind neck / Bull butting right; above, star and Nike flying right, crowning bull; ΘOYPIΩN in exergue. Cf. HN Italy 1831/1879 (for obv./rev.); NAC 52, lot 41 = NAC 54, lot 22 (same dies); NAC 59, lot 506 (same dies); New York Sale III, lot 76 (same dies); Triton III, lot 84 (same dies). Near EF, toned, a hint of die rust, slight die shift and graffito in field on reverse. Extremely rare, one of five published.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 51 (5 March 2009), lot 534 (further pedigree to Triton III coin is erroneous).