Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 29. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $5250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Time of Pyrrhos of Epiros. Circa 280-275 BC. AV Tetrobol (2.82 gm). Attic standard. Struck circa 280-279 BC. LEUKIPPO[S], bearded head of Leukippos right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with Skylla hurling a stone / M-E, two six-grained barley ears, each with a curly leaf to outside; SI between. Johnston G.5.1 (same dies); SNG ANS 397-398 (same dies); SNG Lloyd -; SNG Copenhagen Supp. 43 (same dies); SNG Lockett 404; Jameson 1867; Gulbenkian 72; Pozzi -; Weber -; HN Italy 1630. EF. Rare. [See color enlargement on plate 1] ($5000)

From the James A. Ferrendelli Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 38 (6-7 June 1996), lot 68.

This issue was likely struck for Pyrrhos of Epiros after the battle of Herakleia (280 BC).