Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 109. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $3800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 280-279 BC. AV Tetrobol (2.88 g, 6h). Attic standard. Bearded head of Leukippos right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with Skylla hurling a stone / Two six-grained barley ears, each with a curly leaf to outside; SI between. Johnston Class G, 5; HN Italy 1630; Gulbenkian 72. Near EF, a couple light scratches. Very rare.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 53 (15 March 2000), lot 63.

This issue was probably struck for Pyrrhos of Epeiros following the battle of Herakleia (280 BC).