Finest Known

CNG 93, Lot: 47. Estimate $3000. Sold for $6500. 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; HGC 2, 50; SNG ANS 1167 (same obv. die); Basel 249 (this coin). EF, green-brown patina. Very rare and the finest known.

Ex Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 271, 11 January 2012), lot 2 (sold for hammer $8000, but not paid); Athos D. Moretti Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 13, 8 October 1998), lot 249.