NumisBids
  
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC
Triton XXV  11-12 Jan 2022
View prices realized

Lot 25

Estimate: 750 USD
Price realized: 3000 USD
Find similar lots
Share this lot: Share by Email
LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 400-340 BC. AR Nomos (22mm, 7.73 g, 5h). Obverse die signed by the engraver Aristoxenos. Head of Demeter right, wearing wreath of grain ears; barley grain to left, API on neck truncation / Grain ear with leaf to left; META upward on right. Noe 440 (same dies); HN Italy 1522; SNG Lloyd 347 (same dies); Hunt IV 30 (this coin). Old collection tone, flan flaw on reverse. VF. Clear signature.

Ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Part IV, 19 June 1991), lot 30.

K. Rutter, in HN Italy, noted that "[t]he dies signed by Aristoxenos are among the finest in the whole Metapontine series."
Question about this auction? Contact Classical Numismatic Group, LLC