CNG 100, Lot: 1292. Estimate $7500. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Syracuse. Agathokles. 317-289 BC. AR Stater (21mm, 8.57 g, 11h). Struck circa 317–306/5 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with griffin on the bowl; trophy to left, Λ behind neck guard / Pegasos flying left; triskeles above, Σ-Y-P-A-[KO]ΣIΩ-N around. Pegasi 13/1–2 corr. (control marks, same dies as illustration); BAR Issue 3; HGC 2, 1402; SNG Ashmolean 2073 (same dies); SNG München 1195 (same dies); Dewing 944–5 var. (no letter on rev.). Superb EF, toned. Well centered.
Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG 66 (22 October 1984), lot 47.