Sale: Triton V, Lot: 261. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Pyrrhus . 278-276 BC. Æ 24mm (12.55 gm). FQIAS, veiled head of Phthia left, wearing wreath of oak; pedum (?) behind / BASILEWS above, PURROU below, thunderbolt. SNG ANS 834 var. (spear head on obverse); Calciati II pg. 328, 184 var. (symbol not listed); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Morcom -; Favorito -; Laffaille 246 var. (Pegasos); Virzi 1819 var. (Pegasos). Good VF, chocolate brown patina, reverse lightly smoothed, hairline flan crack. Apparently an unrecorded symbol. ($400)