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Auction IX  22 March 2015
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Lot 23

Estimate: 4000 GBP
Price realized: 3400 GBP
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Lucania, Metapontion AR Stater. Circa 290-280 BC. Diademed head of Herakles right, lion skin tied around neck; club over shoulder / Barley ear of eleven grains, META and leaf to right; kantharos above leaf, B[...] below. Johnston Class D, 4.3; HN Italy 1621; SNG ANS -; SNG Lloyd -; Kraay & Hirmer 248. 7.70g, 19mm, 8h.

About Extremely Fine. Very Rare, these dies not recorded by Johnston. Superb late classical style.

From the Mark Gibbons Collection;
Ex Triton XIII, 5 January 2010, lot 23;
Ex Leu 65, 21 May 1996, lot 54.
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