327, Lot: 250. Estimate $300. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Velia. Circa 300-280 BC. AR Nomos (22mm, 7.30 g, 10h). Philistion group. Head of Athena left, wearing crested Phrygian helmet decorated with griffin, scroll on neck guard; Θ behind neck guard / Lion standing right, tearing at head of stag; Φ-I flanking cicada above. Williams 415 (O205/R293); HN Italy 1305; SNG Ashmolean 1318–9 (same dies). VF, darkly toned, light roughness.

From the Continental Collection.