Seldom Offered Petra Hemilitron

CNG 93, Lot: 73. Estimate $1500. 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 / Aphrodite seated left on dyphros, holding dove. Castrizio Series I, 1 (D1/R1); CNS 1; Puglisi 261; Campana 1 (this coin referenced); HGC 2, 1097; SNG ANS 614 (same dies); Basel 395 (this coin). VF, dark brown patina. Very rare.

Ex Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 271, 11 January 2012), lot 7 (sold for hammer $1900, but not paid); Athos D. Moretti Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 13, 8 October 1998), lot 395.