From the Collection of Orme Lewis, Sr.
Ex Phoenix Art Museum

271, Lot: 4. Estimate $10000. Sold for $19000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Messana (as Zankle). Circa 500-493 BC. AR Drachm (22mm, 5.72 g). Dolphin left within sickle-shaped harbor; DANKLE below dolphin / Nine-part incuse square with scallop shell in center. Gielow 62; Rizzo pl. XXV, 4-5; SNG ANS 302; SNG Lloyd 1076; Basel 359 (same obv. die); Boston MFA 285; Kraay & Hirmer 49. Near EF, attractively toned. Great metal and strike.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Phoenix Art Museum Collection (Triton II, 1 December 1998), lot 188; Orme Lewis Sr. Collection.