Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 111. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Agathokles. 317-289 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.99 g, 10h). Struck circa 310/08-306/5 BC. Head of Kore right, wearing grain ear wreath, single-pendant earring, and necklace; KOPAΣ behind / Nike standing right erecting trophy to right; [AΓ]AΘOKΛEOΣ to left, monogram to lower left, triskeles to right. Ierardi 104 (O21/R65); BAR issue 23; SNG ANS -; SNG Lloyd 1489 (same obv. die); Dewing 947 (same rev. die); SNG Fabricius 259 (same dies). EF, attractive gray toning with slight iridescence.

From the Paul H. Gerrie Collection.