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CICF Signature Sale 3046 14-15 April 2016
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LUCANIA. Heraclea. Ca. 390-330 BC. AR stater (22mm, 8.20 gm, 10h). Reverse die signed by KAL. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with Scylla hurling stone, A - K - Φ in right field / K HPAKΛHIΩN, Heracles facing in fighting stance, grappling with Nemean lion, who lunges to left, owl standing right, head facing, between his legs, a club and the engraver's signature KAΛ on left. SNG ANS 64 (same dies). Van Keuren 50. E. Work, 'The Earlier Staters of Heraclea Lucaniae', ANS 91, 1940, 32. HN Italy 1377. Very rare, struck from dies of exquisite style. Attractively toned. NGC Choice XF★ 4/5 - 4/5, Fine Style.Ex Prospero Collection (New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012), lot 46; ex Olga H. Knoepke Collection, (Glendining's -A.H. Baldwin & Sons, London, 10 December 1986), lot 31.
Estimate: 10000-14000 USD
LUCANIA. Heraclea. Ca. 390-330 BC. AR stater (22mm, 8.20 gm, 10h). Reverse die signed by KAL. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with Scylla hurling stone, A - K - Φ in right field / K HPAKΛHIΩN, Heracles facing in fighting stance, grappling with Nemean lion, who lunges to left, owl standing right, head facing, between his legs, a club and the engraver's signature KAΛ on left. SNG ANS 64 (same dies). Van Keuren 50. E. Work, 'The Earlier Staters of Heraclea Lucaniae', ANS 91, 1940, 32. HN Italy 1377. Very rare, struck from dies of exquisite style. Attractively toned. NGC Choice XF★ 4/5 - 4/5, Fine Style.Ex Prospero Collection (New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012), lot 46; ex Olga H. Knoepke Collection, (Glendining's -A.H. Baldwin & Sons, London, 10 December 1986), lot 31.
Estimate: 10000-14000 USD