CROTON SILVER STATER – RARE VARIETY EX ARS CLASSICA 1923 SALE – VF FINE STYLE NGC GRADED GREEK BRUTTIUM COIN (Inv. 20139)

$2,500.00

20139. BRUTTIUM. CROTON. Ca. 350–300 BC.
Silver Stater, 7.28 g, 21 mm.
Obv. Laureate head of Apollo right. Rev. KPO, tripod with ornamentation, filleted branch in right field.
SNG ANS 3, 392 (same dies); HGC 1, 1497 var. (branch to left); HN Italy 2177; SNG Lockett 632.
Ex Frankfurter Münzhandlung 157, 11/3/2023, lot 44 (lacking earlier provenance info) = Ars Classica V, 6/18/1923, lot 720 (this sale contained duplicates from the British Museum collection, as well as material from other collectors. It is not clear if this coin is from the British Museum holdings as earlier provenance was not recorded).
NGC graded VF, Strike 5/5, Surface 3/5, FINE STYLE, “edge filing,” “scuff,” Naville provenance noted on label, pleasant golden iridescence around the devices.