Croton Nomos circa 400-325, AR 7.57 g. ΚΡΟ[ΤΩΝΙΑ] – ΤΑΣ Laureate head of Apollo r. Rev. Infant Heracles perched on rock strangling snakes. Jameson 434 (these dies). SNG ANS 387 (these dies). SNG Lloyd 617 (this obverse die). Boston, MFA 191 (this obverse die). Historia Numorum Italy 2157.
Rare. A portrait of fine style struck on a very broad flan and with a
lovely old cabinet tone. Good very fine
Ex Glendining & Co 13 December 1963, Foreign Amateur, 88 and New York XXVII, 2012, Prospero, 117 sales.
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