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Triton XXII 8-9 Jan 2019
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BRUTTIUM, Kroton. Circa 400-325 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 7.63 g, 5h). Head of Hera Lakinia facing slightly right, wearing necklace with pendants and stephanos decorated with palmettes; [Δ to right] / Herakles Epitrapezios: young Herakles, nude, holding cup in extended right hand, reclining left on lion skin draped over rock; above, crossed bow and club above MΔ; KPOT[Ω] and tripod to left. Attianese 141 (same dies as illustration); HN Italy 2164; SNG ANS 382 (same dies); SNG Gale 1085 (same dies); Gillet 237 (this coin); Hunt II 215 (same dies); Pozzi 242 (same dies). Near EF, toned, a little off center (as usual).
From the Gasvoda Collection. Ex M. L. Collection of Coins of Magna Graecia and Sicily (Numismatica Ars Classica 82, 20 May 2015), lot 29; Charles Gillet Collection.
From the consignor: The type of Herakles Epitrapezios ("Herakles at the table") shows the hero reclining in the midst of his labors, enjoying a relaxing cup of wine. Phyllis Lehmann, in Statues on Coins of Southern Italy and Sicily in the Classical Period (New York: H. Bittner & Co., 1946), makes a connection between this coin type and a series of later statues in the manner of Lysippos, linking both to a common source, probably an earlier statue at the temple of Hera Lakinia at Kroton, one of the most prominent sanctuaries in Italy.
From the Gasvoda Collection. Ex M. L. Collection of Coins of Magna Graecia and Sicily (Numismatica Ars Classica 82, 20 May 2015), lot 29; Charles Gillet Collection.
From the consignor: The type of Herakles Epitrapezios ("Herakles at the table") shows the hero reclining in the midst of his labors, enjoying a relaxing cup of wine. Phyllis Lehmann, in Statues on Coins of Southern Italy and Sicily in the Classical Period (New York: H. Bittner & Co., 1946), makes a connection between this coin type and a series of later statues in the manner of Lysippos, linking both to a common source, probably an earlier statue at the temple of Hera Lakinia at Kroton, one of the most prominent sanctuaries in Italy.