357, Lot: 11. Estimate $300. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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BRUTTIUM, Kroton. Circa 400-325 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 7.72 g, 9h). Head of Hera Lakinia facing slightly right, wearing necklace and stephane decorated with palmette and two griffin foreparts / Herakles Epitrapezios: young Herakles, nude, holding cup in right hand, reclining left on lion’s skin draped over rock; bow and club above. HN Italy 2160; SNG ANS 379; Boston MFA 186; Gillet 296 (same dies); Jameson 432 (all from the same dies). Near VF, lightly toned, shallow cut on reverse.
From the Camerata Romeu Collection.