| Astarte S.A. > Web Auction 4 | Auction date: 7 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 17 Price realized: 20 CHF (Approx. 22 USD / 20 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: LUCANIA. Metapontion. Circa 300-250 BC (Bronze, 16.01 mm, 3.89 g). Head of Leukippos right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet. Rev. META, Demeter standing facing, head right, left hand on hip, holding long cross-torch in right. HN Italy 1702. SNG Copenhagen 1249. SNG ANS 561. Attractive patina. Near Very Fine. From a Swiss collection, formed before 2005. Starting price: 20 CHF |  |
Match 1:
| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 555 Price realized: 300 CHF (Approx. 341 USD / 317 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: LUCANIA. Metapontion. Circa 300-250 BC. AE (Bronze, 17 mm, 4.27 g, 12 h). Head of Athena facing slightly to right, wearing triple-crested helmet. Rev. META Barley ear with leaf to right; to right, cross-torch. HN Italy 1682. Johnston, Bronze, 46. Attractive brown-green patina. Two edge splits and slightly rough, otherwise, extremely fine. Privately acquired from C. J. Martin and previously from a British collection, formed before 2011. Starting price: 50 CHF |  |
Match 2:
| Astarte S.A. > Web Auction 4 | Auction date: 7 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 14 Price realized: 130 CHF (Approx. 144 USD / 132 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: LUCANIA. Herakleia. Circa 432-420 BC. Diobol (Silver, 12.23 mm, 1.29 g) Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with hippocamp. Rev. [HE] above (not visible). Herakles nude kneeling to right, strangling the Nemean lion and holding club at ground in the right hand. Van Keuren 38; SNG Ans 27; HN Italy 1360. Toned. Some light scratches on reverse, otherwise, Very Fine. Starting price: 50 CHF |  |
Match 3:
| Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVII | Auction date: 9 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 17 Price realized: 3,000 USD (Approx. 2,748 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 330-290 BC. AR Nomos (22mm, 7.68 g, 11h). Head of Demeter left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and pearl necklace; ΔΩPI below chin / Barley ear with leaf to left; pitchfork above leaf, ΔA below, META upward to right. Johnston Class C, 5.1 (same dies); HN Italy 1582; SNG ANS 452 (same dies); SNG Manchester 215 (same dies); Gillet 197 (this coin). Old cabinet tone, with some iridescence, minor lamination and small chip at edge on obverse. Good VF. Attractive style. From the JTB Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 133 (21 November 2022), lot 2; Numismatica Genevensis SA 6 (30 November 2010), lot 12; The Numismatic Auction 1 (13 December 1982), lot 9; Charles Gillet Collection. Estimate: 2000 USD |  |
Match 4:
| Astarte S.A. > Web Auction 2 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 12 Price realized: 200 CHF (Approx. 227 USD / 211 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: LUCANIA. Metapontum. Circa 330-290 BC. Nomos (Silver, 21.0mm, 7.72 g). Head of Demeter to right, wearing triple pendant earring and a grain wreath. Rev. META Barley ear of seven grains with leaf to right; above leaf, Nike standing to left holding wreath with both hands; to left, at base of barley ear, ΛΥ. Johnston Class C, 9.1; HN Italy 1591. SNG ANS 496-498. SNG Copenhagen 1225. SNG Lockett 423. HGC 1, 1063. Some corrosion and deposits, otherwise, good Very Fine. Starting price: 200 CHF |  |
Match 5:
| Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVII | Auction date: 9 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 11 Price realized: 16,000 USD (Approx. 14,654 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: LUCANIA, Herakleia. Circa 390-340 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 7.73 g, 1h). Head of Athena right, wearing triple-pendant earring, pearl necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with Skylla hurling a stone; Δ/Κ/Φ to right / Herakles standing facing, upper torso turned right, wrestling with the Nemean Lion; club and ΚΑΛ to left, |-HPA[KΛHIΩN] to right; between Herakles' legs, owl standing right, head facing. Work 39 (same dies); Van Keuren 50; HN Italy 1377; SNG ANS 63 = Sartiges 28 (same obv. die); SNG Lloyd 272 (same dies); Gillet 125; McClean 824 (same obv. die); Pozzi 148 (same dies); Ward 44 (same obv. die). Attractive deep iridescent tone. Good VF. Struck from wonderfully engraved dies for this type. From the Father & Son Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XLVI.1 (Winter 2021), no. 564443; Roma XX (29 October 2020), lot 15; Dr. G. W. Collection (Gorny & Mosch 269, 9 March 2020), lot 90. Herakleia was a relatively late foundation along the instep of the Italian "boot," starting out as a compromise settlement between the warring city-states of Thourioi and Tarentum around 432 BC. Although widely regarded as a colony of Tarentum, Herakleia considered itself independent and played host to an annual meeting of envoys from all the Italo-Greek cities. Named after Herakles, the city's coinage naturally depicted the powerful demigod on the reverse, here in a deadly embrace with the Nemean Lion. Estimate: 4000 USD |  |
