CNG 100, Lot: 1256. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Kroton. Circa 400-325 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 7.78 g, 11h). Head of Hera Lakinia facing slightly right, wearing necklace and stephane decorated with palmette and two griffin foreparts; K-P-O-T-[O] around / 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; Jameson 432 (all from the same dies). Good VF, toned, hairline flan crack, a little off center as usual for issue. Excellent metal for type.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection. Ex Auctiones 20 (8 November 1990), lot 1254.