Sale: Triton V, Lot: 108. Estimate $1500. Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002. Sold For $1035. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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BRUTTIUM, Terina . Circa 350-275 BC. Æ Diobol (17.01 gm). Head of the nymph Terina right, hair bound in sphendone / TEPI, crab. Cf. Holloway-Jenkins 119 (head left); cf. SNG ANS 885 (same); SNG Copenhagen 2036; SNG Morcom -; Laffaille -; Antikenmuseum Basel 243 (same dies); Virzi 460. VF, green patina. Very Rare. ($1500)
The weight standard employed for this rare series is exactly that of the Syracusan hemidrachms of the period of Dionysius II (367-357), see SNG ANS 470-488, and Thurium, see above nos. 74-78.