153, Lot: 18. Estimate $100.
Sold for $124. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ITALY, Uncertain mint. Circa 3rd century BC(?). Æ 18mm (3.97 g).
ORLANQN, head of young Herakles right, wearing lion’s skin headdress / Barley-ear with leaf to right; TPEBIOY and club in left field, PAIC to right. HN Italy 2674; SNG ANS 776-7. VF, green patina, double struck on reverse.
Despite being inscribed with three distinct words, the mint of this coin has never been identified. The names, if that is what they are, do not link with any known topographical feature in south Italy.
