Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 78. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off SICILY, Lipara. Circa 425 BC. Æ Hemilitron (40.90 g, 9h). Head of Aiolos right, wearing pilos / Stern with aphlaston to left; six pellets and ΛIΠA-P-AION around. CNS 3/4 (same dies); SNG Morcom -; SNG Lloyd -; Basel -; SNG Copenhagen 1085 var. (pellets above); McClean 3055 var. (same). VF, dark green patina, earthen deposits, flan a little irregular, some smoothing. Rare.

Aiolos was the god of the winds in Greek mythology. He was associated with the group of islands between Sicily and Italy, which were appropriately named the Aiolian Islands, of which Lipara was the largest and most important. In fact, Aiolos himself supposedly resided on the island of Lipara, hence his representation of their coins.