Artistic Pyrrhos

173, Lot: 4. Estimate $100. Sold for $345. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Pyrrhos. 278-276 BC. Æ 20mm (7.73 g). Wreathed head of Kore right; crescent behind / Demeter enthroned right, holding grain-ear and sceptre. CNS II 185 Ds 71; SNG ANS 836-8 var. (control). Good VF, brown patina.

From the Christopher Morcom Collection.