Extremely Rare Thermai Issue

255, Lot: 5. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Himera (as Thermai Himerensis). Circa 206/5 or 200-190 BC. Æ (29mm, 15.48 g, 6h). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin, club over shoulder / Three nymphs standing facing. CNS 21 = BMC 5; BAR issue 1; SNG ANS -. VF, dark green patina. Extremely rare, only the BM coin cited in CNS.

Ex David Freedman Collection (Triton V, 15 January 2002), lot 169.