375, Lot: 127. Estimate $150. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 325-280 BC. AR Diobol (12mm, 0.98 g, 10h). Helmeted head of Athena right, wreath on helmet; tiny Λ behind neck / Herakles standing left, strangling the Nemean Lion; quiver to lower left, club to lower right. Vlasto –; HN Italy 976; SNG Lockett 285. VF, dark iridescent tone. Very rare variety of rare issue with wreathed helmet.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Cederlind 165 (1 August 2012), lot 11; Peus 396 (5 November 2008), lot 26; Heidelberger Münzhandlung 28 (12 November 1999), lot 18.