Numismatica Ars Classica
Auction 132 30-31 May 2022
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Nomos circa 430-400, AR 8.00 g. Head of Heracles r., wearing lion's skin headdress. Rev. META Ear of barley; in l. field, fly. Noe 428. Historia Numorum Italy 1505.
Very rare and in exceptional condition for the issue, possibly the finest specimen known.
A vigorous portrait of fine style, slightly off-centre, as is usual for this issue.
Superb light iridescent tone, a hairline flan-crack at five o'clock
on obverse, otherwise extremely fine
Ex NAC sale 9, 1996, 63.
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Nomos circa 430-400, AR 8.00 g. Head of Heracles r., wearing lion's skin headdress. Rev. META Ear of barley; in l. field, fly. Noe 428. Historia Numorum Italy 1505.
Very rare and in exceptional condition for the issue, possibly the finest specimen known.
A vigorous portrait of fine style, slightly off-centre, as is usual for this issue.
Superb light iridescent tone, a hairline flan-crack at five o'clock
on obverse, otherwise extremely fine
Ex NAC sale 9, 1996, 63.
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