Sale: Triton V, Lot: 1178. Estimate $3000. Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002. Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Katana. Circa 460 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.28 gm). River-god Amenanos as a man-headed bull kneeling right; fish below to right, branch above / KAT-ANE, Nike wearing long chiton and running left, holding a fillet in her right hand. Randazzo Hoard 52 (this coin); SNG ANS 1235 (same dies); Jameson 1891 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 175 (same dies). EF, slightly flat reverse strike, rusted obverse die. Very rare, fewer than 20 specimens known with the branch on the obverse. ($3000)
From the William N. Rudman Collection. Ex Randazzo Hoard, 52.