Sale: CNG 63, Lot: 64. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2003.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Kroton. Circa 420-376 BC. AR Nomos (7.76 gm). Head of Hera Lakinia facing slightly right, wearing stephane decorated with palmettes / Herakles seated left on rock covered with lion's skin, holding cup and club, bow on the ground below him. Attianese 136 (same reverse die, but same obverse die of 137); SNG ANS 372 (same dies); HN Italy 2167. Toned, good VF, artistic dies, some minor roughness. ($3000)

Ex Leu 20 (25-26 April 1978), lot 18 @ 15,400 Sfr. 

The type of Herakles Epitrapezios (lit. "Herakles at the table") shows the hero reclining in the midst of his labors, enjoying a relaxing cup of wine. P. Lehmann, in Statues on Ancient Coins, makes a connection between the coin type and a series of later statues in the manner of Lysippos, linking both to a common source, probably an earlier statue at the temple of Hera Lakinia at Kroton, one of the most prominant sanctuaries in Italy.