‡ Italy, Bruttium, Croton, stater, c. 530-500 BC, QΡΟ, tripod-lebes with two scrolls below bowl and two serpents between the lion-paw feet, rev., similar type incuse (lacking ethnic, scrolls, and serpents), 8.23g, die axis 12.00 (Gorini 1; SNG Spencer Churchill 19; SNG Ashmolean 1461; SNG ANS 240; HN Italy 2075), light grey toning, extremely fine Provenance: European Connoisseur collection (formed before 2002).

Estimate: GBP 3000-4000