British Museum Duplicate

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 21. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ETRURIA, Populonia. 3rd century BC. AR 20 Asses (8.39 g). Head of Menrva facing slightly left, wearing triple-crested Attic helmet; [X X flanking neck] / ‘pupluna’ in Etruscan, star of four rays within crescent. Vecchi II 79.4 = Sambon, Les monnaies antiques de l’Itale, 65a = BMC p. 396, 1 (this coin); HN Italy 158; SNG France 24 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 8 (same dies); Basel 13 (same dies); McClean 133 (same dies); Hirsch 15 (same dies). Good VF, toned, double struck and a couple scratches under tone on reverse. Very rare.

From the David Herman Collection. Ex Hess-Leu 24 (16 April 1964), lot 13; British Museum (deaccessioned).