Triton XIX, Lot: 2021. Estimate $5000. Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Timoleon and the Third Democracy. 344-317 BC. AV 10 Litrai – Didrachm (8.5mm, 0.70 g, 2h). Forepart of bull butting left / Grain ear; ΣYPAK-OΣIΩN around. HGC 2, 1291 (Agathokles); SNG ANS 1393 (Agathokles); SNG Lloyd –; Basel 504 = Triton VII, lot 98; Dewing –; Giesecke p. 77, 15; Gulbenkian –; Jameson –. EF, toned. Extremely rare, only the Moretti (Basel) coin in CoinArchives.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Tkalec (19 February 2001), lot 45.

Although the cataloger of the ANS specimen (followed by HGC) places this issue under Agathokles, Bérend did not include it in her study of the gold of Agathokles, and none of the authors of BAR considered it as such, either.