Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 69. Estimate $1000. Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009. Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Gela. Circa 339-310 BC. Æ Tetras(?) (2.74 g, 6h). Head of Demeter facing slightly right, wearing grain ear wreath; [ΓE]ΛΩI-ΩN flanking neck / Bearded head of the river-god Gelas left, grain ears in hair. Jenkins,
Gela, group XII, 549; CNS 59; SNG Morcom 591; SNG ANS 123; SNG Lloyd -; Rizzo pl. XIX, 21; Basel 294. EF, dark green patina, minor roughness on reverse. From artistic dies.