Sale: Nomos 3 & 4, Lot: 28. Estimate CHF12500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 May 2011.  Sold For CHF10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. Didrachm (Gold, 0.67 g 6), c. 405 . ΣVΡΑ (partially retrograde and upside down) Head of Athena to right, wearing Attic helmet with crests but without side flaps Rev. Aegis. Rizzo pl. XLVIII, 6, SNG ANS 317, SNG Copenhagen 687, and SNG Lockett 983 (all from the same dies). Rare. A lovely, well struck piece. Good extremely fine.

From a Swiss private collection and from the collections of L. Stack, Stack’s 13 January 2008, 2110 and J. A. Ferrendelli, Triton VII, 13 January 2004, 84.