Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 23. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 290-280 BC. AR Nomos (7.69 g, 8h). Diademed head of Herakles right, lion skin tied around neck; club over shoulder / Barley ear of eleven grains, leaf to right; kantharos above leaf, B[...] below. Johnston Class D, 4.3; HN Italy 1621; SNG ANS -; SNG Lloyd -; Kraay & Hirmer 248. Near EF, attractive iridescent toning, small flan flaw on reverse. Very rare, these dies not recorded by Johnston. Superb head of Herakles in fine late Classical - early Hellenistic style.