Two Attractive Nomoi Featuring Hera Lakinia // From the Herman Collection
Sale: Triton X, Lot: 56. Estimate $1000. Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007. Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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BRUTTIUM, Kroton. Circa 400-325 BC. AR Nomos (7.80 g, 6h). Head of Hera Lakinia facing slightly right, wearing necklace and stephane decorated with central palmette flanked by two griffins;
D to right /
[KR]O[TW], young Herakles, nude, holding cup in extended right hand, reclining left on lion skin draped over rock; bow and club above, M
D above arm, tripod to left. Attianese 141; HN Italy 2162 corr.; SNG ANS 382 (same obv. die); SNG Lloyd -; SNG Copenhagen 1800; SNG Lockett 629. VF, toned, minor flan flaw on nose, die breaks on reverse.
From the David Herman Collection. Ex Leu 83 (6 May 2002), lot 38.