Finest Known

Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 139. Estimate $20000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $28500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAMPANIA, Suessa Aurunca. Circa 265-240 BC. AR Nomos (7.23 g, 5h). Laureate head of Apollo right / Dioscouros, holding filleted palm frond, riding left, accompanied by second horse in backround. HN Italy 447; SNG ANS -; SNG France 1154 = De Luynes 204 = Sambon 863 (same dies). EF, attractively toned. Well centered and perfectly struck from dies of fine style. Considered the finest known coin of Suessa Aurunca.

Ex Numismatica Genevensis IV (11 December 2006), lot 7; Leu 42 (12 May 1987), lot 137.