Ex Virgil Brand Collection

Triton XIX, Lot: 68. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Fifth Democracy. 214-212 BC. AR 12 Litrai (23mm, 10.21 g, 5h). Head of Athena left, wearing crested Corinthian helmet, single-pendant earring, and necklace, wearing aegis around neck / Artemis standing left, drawing bow; on her far side, hound springing left; ΞA to left. Burnett, Enna 24 (dies 9/q); BAR Issue 84; SNG ANS 1040 (same dies); SNG Fitzwilliam 1436 (same dies); Pozzi 664 (same dies). EF, toned, a little die wear.

Ex G. Hirsch 275 (22 September 2011), lot 3328; Virgil M. Brand Collection (Part 3, Sotheby's, 9 June 1983), lot 42; A. Hess (7 October 1907), lot 1706 (both Hirsch and Brand erroneously list this coin as being a Berlin Museum duplicate, but it is from a later part of the Hess sale, containing coins from other consignors).