Ex Weber Collection – Purchased in 1888

Triton XIX, Lot: 65. Estimate $3000. Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Agathokles. 317-289 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.04 g, 10h). Struck circa 310-306/5 BC. Head of Kore right, wearing wreath of grain ears, single-pendant earring, and necklace; KOPAΣ to left / Nike standing right erecting trophy to right; [ΛΓΛOOKΛEIOΣ to left], triskeles to lower right. Ierardi 132a (O31/R86) = Weber 1675 (this coin); BAR Issue 23; HGC 2, 1536; SNG ANS 666–8; SNG Lloyd 1491; Bement 536; Morgan 152; Ward 321. Good VF, deeply toned, small flan flaw in field on obverse. Fine style.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 55 (13 September 2000), lot 122; Münzen und Medaillen AG 54 (26 October 1978), lot 129; Knobloch FPL 27 (May 1965), no. 115; Ars Classica X (15 June 1925), lot 331; Naville IV (17 June 1922), lot 395; Sir Hermann Weber Collection, 1675, purchased from Spink, 1888.