Triton XIX, Lot: 66. Estimate $10000. Sold for $9500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Syracuse. Agathokles. 317-289 BC. AV Tetrobol – Dekadrachm (12.5mm, 2.87 g, 7h). Struck circa 305-289 BC. Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath / Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand, reins in left, driving galloping biga right; triskeles below horses, Φ in exergue. Bérend,
l’or pl. 9, 13; BAR Issue 30; HGC 2, 1286 (this coin illustrated); SNG ANS 706; SNG Lloyd 1474 var. (T in exergue); Gillet 716; Jameson 859. Superb EF, lightly toned, underlying luster. Very rare.
Ex Nomos 1 (6 May 2009), lot 29; Tkalec (19 February 2001), lot 47.