Two Exceptional Gela Didrachms
Exceptional Artistic Merit and the Finest Known

Triton XVIII, Lot: 346. Estimate $20000. Sold for $40000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Gela. Circa 490/85-480/75 BC. AR Didrachm (19.5mm, 8.72 g, 3h). Nude warrior riding right, preparing to cast javelin held aloft in his right hand / Forepart of man-headed bull right; CE-Λ-A to right and below. Jenkins, Gela, Group Ib, 8 (O5/R4); HGC 2, 362; SNG ANS 6 var. (arrangement of ethnic, same obv. die,); SNG Lloyd –; Dewing 592; Kraay & Hirmer 155 (same dies). Superb EF, attractively toned, tiny die break and traces of encrustation on reverse. The finest known.

Ex Sotheby’s “Two Hundred Highly Important Greek and Roman Coins” (5 July 1995), lot 14; Leu 36 (7 May 1985), lot 40.