CNG 90, Lot: 346. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Herbessos. 339-336 BC. Æ Drachm (29mm, 32.17 g, 12h). Head of Sikelia right, wreath of myrtle in her hair / Forepart of a man-headed bull right. Castrizio series II, 1 (D1/R1); CNS 4; SNG Morcom 593; SNG ANS -; SNG Lloyd 1002; Rizzo pl. LIX, 17 (same rev. die); Basel 297 (this coin). VF, green-brown patina, minor edge splits. Rare.
Ex Nomos FPL (Winter-Spring 2011), no. 8; Paul H. Gerrie Collection (Triton XII, 6 January 2009), lot 70; Triton VII (13 January 2004), lot 47; Athos D. Moretti Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 13, 8 October 1998), lot 297.