Triton XIX, Lot: 16. Estimate $4000. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. temp. Alexander the Molossian. Circa 334-322 BC. AV Third Stater (14mm, 2.62 g, 10h). Achaian standard. Head of Hera right, wearing stephanos ornamented with palmettes, and single-pendant earring / Barley ear of six grains, with leaf to right; bird standing right on leaf, METAΠON to left. Johnston G1; HN Italy 1578; SNG ANS 395; SNG Lloyd –; SNG Lockett 406; Dewing 377 (same dies); Gillet 203 (same dies). VF, underlying luster. Well centered and struck.

Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG 66 (12 October 1984), lot 12.