394, Lot: 75. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Rhegion. Circa 450-445 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 17.26 g, 7h). Head of lion facing / Iokastos (or Aristaios?) seated left, drapery around waist, holding scepter in right hand, left hand placed on left hip; RECI-NOS flanking; all within laurel wreath. Herzfelder 1 (D1/R1); Randazzo 9 (this coin); HN Italy 2477; BMC 8; Jameson 452; Winterthur 525 = Hermitage Sale II 202 (all from the same dies). VF, toned, a few die breaks, some roughness. Rare first issue of facing lion coinage at Rhegion.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Miles Condon Collection (Noble 97, 26 July 2011), lot 3259; N. Geddes Super Fund (Noble 73, 8 July 2003), lot 3208; Noble 59 (17 November 1998), lot 1801; Randazzo/Sicily, 1980 Hoard (CH VII, 17).