Ex Hermitage Collection

409, Lot: 25. Estimate $300. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Thourioi. Circa 350-300 BC. AR Nomos (20.5mm, 8.07 g, 8h). Head of Athena right, wearing helmet decorated on the bowl with Skylla throwing stone, and on the neck guard with ΣΩ / Bull butting right; ΣΩ above, Φ-I flanking rear leg; in exergue, tunny right. HN Italy 1820; SNG ANS 1062; Hermitage Sale II 117 (this coin). VF, toned, slight die wear, a little off center on reverse.

Ex Friedinger-Pranter Collection (Lanz 155, 10 December 2012), lot 23; Grabow 14 (27 July 1939), lot 76; Hermitage Museum Collection (Schlessinger 13, 4 February 1935), lot 138.