294, Lot: 125. Estimate $150. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Syracuse. Agathokles. 317-289 BC. Æ Litra (21mm, 8.37 g, 7h). Struck circa 308/7 BC. Diademed head of Herakles right; bow to left (only traces visible) / Lion standing right, raising foreleg; club above, spear in exergue. Cf. Holloway,
Bronze pl. 7, 6; BAR Issue 24; CNS 151 Ds 8 Rs 63; SNG ANS 739. VF, dark green-brown patina.
From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection. Ex Gustav Philipsen Collection (Part I, J. Hirsch XV, 28 May 1906), lot 1241.