A Duplicate of The British Museum Specimen From The Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection
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Lucania, Herakleia (c.390-340 B.C.), Silver Stater, 7.84g, . Head of Athena three-quarters facing to right, wearing a crested Attic helmet. Rev. ├HPAKΛHI-ΩN, Herakles fighting the Nemean lion and preparing to strike it with a club in his raised right hand (BMC 27 (this coin); E. Work, ‘The Earlier Staters of Heraclea Lucaniae’, ANS NNM 91, 1940, 23a (this coin); Van Keuren 22; SNG Lloyd 270 (these dies); SNG ANS 56 (these dies); HN Italy 1375). A few light marks beneath an attractive cabinet tone, good very fine, a reverse composition of great beauty and animation. $ 8,000 From the cabinet of The British Museum Ex Bank Leu AG, Auction 20, Zurich, 25 & 26 April 1978, lot 8 Ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection, Sotheby’s, New York, 21-22 June 1990, lot 188