The Abduction of Persephone

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 419. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Henna. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Æ 26mm (15.89 g, 11h). L. Munatius and M Cestius, duoviri. Struck 44-36 BC. L [•] MVNATIVS M • CESTIVS, veiled head of Demeter left, wearing grain ear wreath; torch below chin / MVN • HENNAE, Hades standing left in quadriga right, holding protesting Persephone in right arm and scepter in left. RPC I 661; CNS 12/8 = Virzi 944 (same dies); FITA 190; SNG ANS -; SNG Copenhagen 235. VF, dark green patina, light overall roughness.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection. Ex Lanz 86 (18 May 1998), lot 43.