CNG 105, Lot: 6. Estimate $7500. Sold for $11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. temp. Pyrrhos of Epeiros. Circa 276-272 BC. AV Hemistater – Drachm (15mm, 4.28 g, 1h). Youthful head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Ephebe, holding kentron in right hand, reins in left, driving fast biga right; ΣΩK above, [TAPANTINΩN below]. Fischer-Bossert G33 (V29/R33); Vlasto 29; HN Italy 985; SNG ANS 1036; SNG Lloyd 201; Dewing 182; Jameson 2391 = Weber 551 (all from the same dies). EF, minor marks. Rare.

Ex Nomos 12 (22 May 2016), lot 17 (from a German collection formed before 2005).