Triton XXII, Lot: 68. Estimate $7500. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Thourioi. Circa 400-350 BC. AR Double Nomos – Distater (26.5mm, 15.82 g, 3h). Head of Athena right, wearing pearl necklace and crested Attic helmet decorated on its bowl with Skylla raising left arm to head, and on its neck guard with a griffin standing right / Bull butting right on dotted ground line; ΘOYPIΩN above; in exergue, fish right. Noe, Thurian, Group C, 2 (same dies); HN Italy 1803; SNG ANS 958 (same dies); BMC 27 (same dies). EF, light iridescent toning, hairline flan crack.

Ex Triton VIII (11 January 2005), lot 40; Tkalec (24 October 2003), lot 16.