From the Virzi Collection
Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1036. Estimate $1000. Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010. Sold For $1450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Syracuse. Timoleon and the Third Democracy. 344-317 BC. Æ Hemidrachm (16.42 g, 9h). Timoleontic Symmachy coinage. 1st series, circa 344-339/8 BC. Laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios right / Upright thunderbolt; to right, eagle standing right. Castrizio series I, 1γ; CNS 72 st 3/11 = Virzi 1522 (this coin); SNG ANS 477-88. EF, dark green-brown patina.
From the Olphin Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 41 (19 March 1997), lot 220; Sternberg XXXI (27 October 1996), lot 825 (and front cover); Tom Virzi Collection, 1522.