Four Exceptional Gold Issues of the Late 5th to Early 4th Century BC

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 61. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AV Didrachm (0.67 g, 6h). Struck circa 405 BC. Head of Athena left wearing Attic helmet; ΣVPA (PA inverted) before / Aegis. Rizzo pl. XLVIII, 6 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1418; SNG ANS 317 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 687 (same dies); SNG Lockett 983 (same dies); Dewing 863 (same rev. die). Superb EF.

Ex Lawrence R. Stack Collection (Stack’s, 13 January 2008), lot 2110; James A. Ferrendelli Collection (Triton VII, 13 January 2004), lot 84.