Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 66. Estimate $5000. Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008. Sold For $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Syracuse. Agathokles. 317-289 BC. AV Dekadrachm - 50 Litrai (4.30 g, 7h). Struck circa 317-311 BC. Laureate head of Apollo left; grain ear behind /
SUR-AK-OSI-WN, charioteer driving biga right, holding kentron in right hand, reins in left; triskeles below. Bérend,
l’or, pl. 9, 1; Carroccio,
basileus, type 1; SNG ANS 552; SNG Lloyd 1473 (same rev. die); Jameson 858 (same dies); SNG Lockett 1000 (same rev. die). Superb EF, lustrous, reverse struck slightly off center.
From Collection C.G. Ex Triton II (1 December 1998), lot 263.