Lot 5284

Description

Ionia, Heraclea ad Latmun, (after 150-145 B.C.), tetradrachm (stephanophoros), (16.66 grams), obv. helmeted head of Athena to right, wearing triple-crested Athenian helmet, adorned in front with foreparts of five horses, behind raised cheekpiece with Pegasus running and at back with tendril, also with triple-pendant ear-ring and pearl necklace, rev. oak-wreath enclosing club, above **HRAKLEWTWN*, below Nike standing to left between two monograms **SKU* and A**DIR* in circle, (cf.S.4453, Lavva, Silberpr?gung group II.B, SNG Munich 430, Pozzi Collection [lot 2452]). Extremely fine and rare.

Ex McHugh Collection and previously from the Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection, Sotheby's New York, June 21-22, 1990 (lot 492).