CNG 102, Lot: 70. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Velia. Circa 300-280 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 7.53 g, 4h). Philistion group. Head of Athena left, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with a griffin, single-pendant earring, and pearl necklace; Θ behind neck guard / Lion standing right, devouring prey; above, grasshopper between Φ-I; YEΛHTΩN in exergue. Williams 421e (O208/R298) = Mangieri 166 (this coin); HN Italy 1305; SNG ANS 1364 (same dies); Hermitage Sale II 130 (same dies). EF, lovely old cabinet tone.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 27 (12 May 2004), lot 52; Athos D. Moretti Collection; Emil Ernst Alfred Lejeune Collection (Rosenberg 72, 11 July 1932), lot 110.