1079070 | GREEK. BRUTTIUM. Croton or Kroton. Struck circa 425-350 BC. AR Stater. NGC Ch. XF✭ (Choice Extremely Fine ✭) Strike 4/5 Surface 5/5 Fine Style. 7.93gm. Eagle standing right, head raised, with wings displayed / ϘPO. Tripod lebes with three handles, legs terminating in lion's feet; vertical bay leaf to left, all in shallow incuse circle. Gulbenkian I 128 (same obverse die). HN Italy 2148. SNG ANS 345.

Lovely cabinet patina and an exceptional provenance dating to 1896.

Ex Long Valley River Collection (Roma Numismatics, Auction XX, 29 October 2020), lot 34; Heritage Auctions, Auction 3071 (7 January 2019), lot 34002; Johns Hopkins University Collection (Bank Leu-Numismatic Fine Arts, 16-18 October 1984), lot 112; John Work Garrett (1872-1942) Collection, privately purchased from Spink in June 1926; Frank Sherman Benson (1854-1907) Collection (Sotheby's, 3 February 1909), lot 112; Sir Edward Herbert Bunbury (1811-1895) Collection (Sotheby's, 15 June 1896), lot 204.


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