BRUTTIUM, The Brettii. Circa 216-214 BC. AR Drachm (19.5mm, 4.28 g, 2h). Second Punic War issue.

Triton XXV
Lot: 37. Estimated: $ 2 000

Greek, Coin-in-Hand Video, Silver

Sold For $ 5 500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Go to Live

BRUTTIUM, The Brettii. Circa 216-214 BC. AR Drachm (19.5mm, 4.28 g, 2h). Second Punic War issue. Diademed and draped bust of Nike right, wearing single-pendant earring and necklace, hair drawn together in a band at the back; star to left / Dionysos, nude but for drapery over left arm, standing facing, crowning himself with wreath in right hand and holding scepter in left; BPETTIΩN to left; to right, thymiaterion above Λ. Arslan dies 47/65'; Scheu S13; HN Italy 1959; SNG ANS 17 (same dies); Ars Classica XVI, lot 291 (same dies). Lovely old collection tone, trace deposits. Choice EF. Well struck from dies of fine style.

From the Menlo Park Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, May 2003.


The final winners of all Triton XXV lots will be determined at the live public sale that will be held on 11-12 January 2022. Triton XXV – Session One – Greek Coinage (Part 1) will be held Tuesday morning, 11 January 2022 beginning at 9:00 AM ET.

Winning bids are subject to a 20% buyer's fee for bids placed on this website and 22.50% for all others.

We recognize that our users may have various Internet Browsers and Operating Systems. We like our visitors to have the best possible experience when using our bidding platform. However, we do recognize that it is impossible to develop applications that work identically, efficiently and effectively on all web browsers. The CNG bidding platform supports the latest stable major version and the stable previous version of Mozilla Firefox and Chrome.