Triton XXI, Lot: 321. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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LUCANIA, Thourioi. Circa 443-400 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 7.91 g, 10h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with laurel wreath / Bull standing left on plain ground line; ΘOYPI[ΩN] above; in exergue, fish left. Jörgensen 3, pl. VIII, 4 (same dies); HN Italy 1775; SNG Lockett 483; Gillet 245; Pozzi 221. EF, attractive even deep gray tone with a light iridescence around the devices, slight die shift on reverse. Excellent metal.
From the J. L. Gomer Collection. Ex Leu 54 (28 April 1992), lot 12.