Rare Pedigreed Lipara Bronze

Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 94. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $5710. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off SICILY, Lipara. Circa 425 BC. Æ Hemilitra (45.56 g, 11h). Head of Aiolos right, wearing pilos / Stern with aphlaston to right; six pellets above. CNS 4; SNG Copenhagen 1084; BMC 1 (same rev. die). VF, green-brown patina, typical minor roughness. Rare.

From the Alexandre de Barros Collection. Ex Vecchi 16 (9 October 1999), lot 82.

The first bronze issues of Lipara were probably produced from booty taken from an Etruscan fleet defeated in 425 BC. Aiolos gave his name to the Aiolian Islands, of which Lipara is the largest.