292, Lot: 109. Estimate $300. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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BRUTTIUM, Kroton. Circa 400-325 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 7.65 g, 7h). Head of Hera Lakinia facing slightly right, wearing stephane / Young Herakles, holding cup and club, reclining left on lion skin draped over rock; bow and serpent below. HN Italy 2167; SNG ANS 371 (same dies). VF, typical obverse die flaws, some roughness and erosion. Overstruck on a Corinthian-type stater with Pegasus rump and tail visible above Herakles’ outstretched arm.