Ex Prowe Collection
Pedigreed to 1904

Triton XXII, Lot: 71. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Velia. Circa 334-300 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 7.59 g, 11h). Kleudoros group. Head of Athena left, wearing Phrygian helmet decorated with a centauress recumbent left; monogram behind neck guard / Lion standing left, devouring prey; Φ between legs, YEΛHTΩN in exergue. William 350b (O181/R253 – this coin); HN Italy 1294; SNG ANS 1339 (same rev. die); SNG München 869 (same rev. die); Hirsch 193 (same rev. die); McClean 1449 (same rev. die); Nanteuil 197 (same dies). VF, deep old cabinet toning, softly struck and slightly off center on reverse.

From the Gasvoda Collection. Ex iNumis 30 (13 October 2015), lot 4; CGB Monnaies 57 (20 February 2013), lot 10; J. Hirsch XVI (5 December 1906), lot 150; Theodor Prowe Collection (Part I, Egger XVII, 28 November 1904), lot 125.