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357, Lot: 586. Estimate $75.
Sold for $45. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ELECTROTYPE, LUCANIA. Herakleia. Circa 276-250 BC. “AR Nomos” (21mm, 5.39 g, 6h). British Museum electrotype by Robert Ready or his sons. Philo-, magistrate. Head of Athena right, wearing Corinthian helmet decorated with griffin / Herakles standing facing, head right, holding club and lion's skin; to upper right, Nike flying left, crowning him. Head, Guide, Period V.C., 17. For prototype, cf. HN Italy 1429 and SNG ANS 597. As made, toned. Lot includes old B.A. Seaby Ltd. envelope.