64, Lot: 24. Estimate $300. Sold for $325. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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LUCANIA, The Lucani. Circa 207-204 BC. Æ Reduced Sextans (27mm, 17.08 gm). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress; spearhead below / Athena advancing right, holding shield and spear; wolf's head right. Scheu, "The Coinage of the Lucanians," in
NumChron 1964, pg. 71, 7; SNG ANS 2; HN Italy 1456. Good VF, dark green and brown patina, reverse not fully struck.
From the David Freedman Collection.