Finest Known

271, Lot: 2. Estimate $3000. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Agyrion. 339-336 BC. Æ Hemilitron (29mm, 15.36 g, 5h). Head of young Herakles (or Iolaos?) right, wearing tainia, lion skin tied around his neck / Panther standing right on ground, gnawing on stag’s head held down by his foreclaws; [AΓYPIN]AIΩN in exergue. Castrizio Series V, 1 (D1/R2); CNS 12; Puglisi –; Campana 12; SNG ANS 1167 (same obv. die); SNG Lloyd 853 (same dies); Basel 249 (this coin). EF, green-brown patina. Very rare and the finest known.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Athos D. Moretti Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 13, 8 October 1998), lot 249.