Pedigreed to 1939

CNG 109, Lot: 48. Estimate $2500. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Kroton. Circa 425-350 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 7.98 g, 1qh). Eagle standing right, head left, on the edge of a cornice (in the form of a double exergue line) with dentils below; skull of goat(?) to right / Tripod with high neck surmounted by wreaths, legs terminating in lion’s feet; (koppa)PO to left, olive spray to right. Attianese 109; HN Italy 2147; SNG ANS 340; Basel 201 = Jameson 425 = Consul Weber 466; Boston MFA 184 = Warren 150; Kraay & Hirmer 268 = Regling, Antike 372; McClean 1699 (all from the same dies). Near EF, attractive cabinet tone, slightly off center.

From the Gasvoda Collection. Ex Nomos 11 (9 October 2015), lot 22; Dr. Eugen Nitsch Collection (A. Hess 236, 3 April 1939), lot 177.