CNG 102, Lot: 160. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Agathokles. 317-289 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 17.40 g, 6h). Struck circa 310-306/5 BC. Head of Kore right, wearing wreath of grain ears, single-pendant earring, and necklace; KOPAΣ to left / Nike standing right erecting trophy to right; ΛΓΛOOKΛEIOΣ to left, triskeles to lower right. Ierardi 132a (O27/R76); BAR Issue 23; HGC 2, 1536; SNG ANS 665; SNG Lloyd 1492; SNG Lockett 1003 = Pozzi 645; Gulbenkian 333 (all from the same obv. die). Near EF, toned.

From the Allan Smith, M.D. Collection, purchased from Pars Coins, 21 March 2011.