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From Harlan J. Berk Auction 1

CNG 97, Lot: 18. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Agyrion. Circa 339/8-317 BC. Æ Hemilitron (27mm, 14.94 g, 5h). Head of young Herakles (or Iolaos?) right, wearing tainia, lion skin tied around his neck / Panther standing right, gnawing on stag’s head held down by his foreclaws. Castrizio Series V, 1 (D1/R2); CNS 12; Campana 12; HGC 2, 50; Rizzo pl. LIX, 11; Virzi 730. VF, dusty green patina.


From the Trinacria Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 7 (1 March 1994), lot 185; Berk Chicago International Coin Fair Sale [Auction 1] (23 March 1993), lot 11.