From the Orme Lewis and Phoenix Art Museum Collections
Triton XVII, Lot: 50. Estimate $20000. Sold for $35000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Messana (as Zankle). Circa 500-493 BC. AR Drachm (22mm, 5.72 g). Dolphin left; DANKLE below; all within sickle-shaped harbor / Nine-part incuse square with scallop shell in center. Gielow 62; HGC 2, 766; SNG ANS 302; SNG Lloyd 1076; Basel 359 (same obv. die); Boston MFA 285; Kraay & Hirmer 49; Rizzo pl. XXV, 4-5. Near EF, attractively toned. Great metal and strike.
Ex Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 271, 11 January 2012), lot 4; Phoenix Art Museum Collection (Triton II, 1 December 1998), lot 188; Orme Lewis Sr. Collection.