Ex Schonwalter, Nantueil, Picard, and Barron Collections

CNG 112, Lot: 54. Estimate $1000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Velia. Circa 300-280 BC. AR Nomos (23.5mm, 7.47 g, 7h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with wreath / Lion walking right; in exergue, grape bunch hanging from vine. Williams 385a (O193/R271) = Nantueil 195 (this coin); HN Italy 1302. Attractively toned, a few light cleaning marks under tone, small scrape in field on obverse. Good VF. Fine-style dies.

From the Matthew Curtis Collection. Ex Robert Schonwalter Collection (Triton V, 15 January 2002), lot 1122; Kirk Davis FPL 38 (March 2002), no. 15; Henri de Nanteuil Collection; G. Picard Collection (Sambon, 14 March 1923), lot 186; Percy Barron Collection (J. Hirsch XXX, 11 May 1911), lot 250.