CNG 97, Lot: 27. Estimate $200. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Gela. Circa 208-200 BC. Æ Hemilitron (23mm, 10.53 g, 12h). Wreathed head of Gelas right / Antiphemos standing right, holding sword, about to sacrifice ram leaping right; H to left. Jenkins, Gela, Group XIVa, 554 var. (orientation of legend, same obv. die as examples 1, 2, 4, 13, 14, and 16); BAR Issue 1; CNS 63–4 var. (same); HGC 2, 382; Virzi 1012 (same dies). Good VF, brown and green patina, details enhanced.

From the Trinacria Collection. Ex Sotheby’s (26 October 1993), lot 202.