Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 677. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $675. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, The Brettii. Circa 215-205 BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.36 g, 9h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with a griffin / BRETTIWN, eagle standing left, with wings spread, on thunderbolt; rudder to right. Arslan dies AR85/AR112'; Scheu S2; SNG ANS 27 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 1628 (same dies); McClean 1510 (same dies). EF, toned, a couple spots of encrustation on obverse. ($750)

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 40 (with Numismatica Ars Classica, 4 December 1996), lot 128; George Henry Abbott Collection (Glendining's, 10 November 1951), lot 128.