Seldom Offered Petra Hemilitron

271, Lot: 7. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Petra. 354/3-344 BC. Æ Hemilitron (29mm, 29.65 g, 4h). Bearded head right; [ΠETPINΩN to right] / Aphrodite, wearing chiton, seated left on dyphros, holding dove in extended left hand. Castrizio Series I, 1 (D1/R1); CNS 1; Puglisi 261; Campana 1 (this coin referenced); SNG ANS 614 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1164 (same dies); Basel 395 (this coin). VF, dark brown patina. Very rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Athos D. Moretti Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 13, 8 October 1998), lot 395.