LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 340-330 BC. AR Double Nomos (27mm, 15.66 g, 4h).

Triton XXV
Lot: 26. Estimated: $ 3 000

Greek, Coin-in-Hand Video, Silver

Sold For $ 2 250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 340-330 BC. AR Double Nomos (27mm, 15.66 g, 4h). Head of Leukippos right, wearing Corinthian helmet decorated with charioteer driving fast quadriga right on the bowl, and tiny hippocamp left on the side; to left, forepart of lion right and AΠH / Barley ear with leaf to left; club above leaf, AMI below; METAΠONTINΩN to left. Johnston Class B, 1.2 (same dies); HN Italy 1574; SNG ANS 430 (same dies); SNG Ashmolean 726 (same dies); SNG Fitzwilliam 493 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 376 = Kraay & Hirmer 242 (same dies); SNG München 982 (same dies); Jameson 306 (same dies); Locker-Lampson 22 (this coin). Deep cabinet tone, minor delamination on obverse, edge split. VF.

From the Pythagoras Collection, purchased from Herb Kreindler. Ex Robert Schonwalter Collection (coin sold privately); Ars Classica XVI (3 July 1933), lot 166; Godfrey Locker-Lampson Collection (published 1923).


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