Sale: Triton V, Lot: 179. Estimate $250. Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002. Sold For $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Katane . After 212 BC. Æ 20mm (8.11 gm). KATANAI-[WN], wreathed head of Dionysos right / Dionysos, holding grape cluster in right hand and sceptre in left, seated left in biga being pulled to the right by two panthers; three monograms around. SNG ANS 1291ff; Calciati III pg. 106-107, 19; BMC Sicily pg. 53, 80; SNG Copenhagen 200-201; SNG Morcom 555; Laffaille -; Virzi 848ff. Good VF, dark brown patina on the obverse, dark green patina on the reverse. ($250)