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Triton XVIII, Lot: 371. Estimate $500.
Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Messana. The Mamertinoi. 264-241 BC. Æ Sextans (25mm, 8.59 g, 11h). Head of Ares right; •• (mark of value) to left, APEOΣ to right / Athena advancing right, holding spear in right hand, left hand on shield set on ground to right; MAME-PTINΩN to left. Särström Series X, Group A, 155–68; BAR Issue 16 (this coin illustrated); CNS 21; HGC 2, 848; SNG ANS 420–2; SNG Lloyd –; BMC 24; Hunterian 17–8; McClean 2432; Virzi 1224–5. Near EF, dark green patina, overstruck on uncertain type. Well centered on a broad flan.


From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Nomos I (6 May 2009), lot 24; Leu 86 (5 May 2003), lot 274.