100. BRUTTIUM, Kroton. Circa 400-325 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 7.53 g, 2h). Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath / Tripod with high neck surmounted by wreaths, legs terminating in lion’s feet; filleted laurel branch to left, ˚ro to right. Attianese 143 (same rev. die as illustration); HN Italy 2177; SNG ANS 389 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 623; Bement 297 (same dies). EF, wonderful cabinet tone. Well centered and struck. ($3000) From the Gasvoda Collection. Ex Waddell inventory 51480 (August 2014); CNG inventory 157824 (July 2005), purchased from Herb Kreindler.
101. BRUTTIUM, Kroton. Circa 300-250 BC. AR Oktobol or Half Nomos(?) (16mm, 3.11 g, 4h). Reduced standard. Head of male (Herakles or river-god?) right, wearing tainia; ˚-r-o around neck truncation / Owl standing left, head facing, on grain ear left; ˚ro to right. Attianese 152 (this coin illustrated); HN Italy 2195; Demeester 15 (this coin); de Luynes 738 (same rev. die). Near EF, wonderful old cabinet tone. Very rare with ethnic on obverse. ($2000) From the Gasvoda Collection. Ex J. FALM Collection of Miniature Masterpieces of Greek Coinage depicting Animals (Numismatica Ars Classica 82, 20 May 2015), lot 82; New York Sale III (7 December 2000), lot 79.
Ex Lockett, Pozzi, and Rhousopoulos Collections Pedigreed to 1905
102. BRUTTIUM, Kroton. Circa 300-250 BC. AR Triobol (11mm, 1.22 g, 6h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet and necklace; ˚rotW above / Herakles, nude but for lion skin tied at neck, standing right, leaning on grounded club that he holds in both hands; d to left, o5˚5st[Ås] to right. Attianese 167 (this coin illustrated); HN Italy 2195; SNG Copenhagen 1817 (same dies); SNG Lockett 634 = Pozzi 310 = Rhousopoulos 227 (this coin). Near EF, deep old collection tone. Rare. ($1500) From the Gasvoda Collection. Ex Waddell inventory 52100 (August 2015); Numismatica Ars Classica 23 (19 March 2002), lot 1068; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Greek Part 1, Glendining, 25 October 1955), lot 516; Prof. Samuel-Jean Pozzi Collection (Naville I, 14 March 1921), lot 310; Athanasios Rhousopoulos Collection (J. Hirsch XIII, 15 May 1905), lot 227.
103. BRUTTIUM, Kroton. Circa 280-277 BC. AR Nomos (22mm, 6.48 g, 3h). Reduced standard. Eagle standing right, head left, on thunderbolt; Ì to left, wreath to right / Tripod with high neck [surmounted by wreaths], legs terminating in lion’s feet; ˚ro to left; to right, Nike flying left, [placing wreath on tripod]. Attianese 130 corr. (monogram, not K; same obv. die as illustration); HN Italy 2184 corr. (same); SNG ANS 407 (same obv. die); SNG Gale 1100 (same obv. die); SNG Lloyd 630 (same dies); McClean 1733 (same obv. die). EF, attractive even gray tone with light golden hues around the devices, slight doubling. Overstruck on uncertain type. ($3000) From the Gasvoda Collection. Ex Hess-Divo 329 (17 November 2015), lot 14; Paul H. Gerrie Collection (Triton XII, 6 January 2009), lot 55; Numismatic Ars Classica 23 (19 March 2002), lot 1067.
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