CNG 103, Lot: 75. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Syracuse. Agathokles. 317-289 BC. EL 25 Litrai – Quarter Stater (11.5mm, 1.86 g, 9h). Struck circa 310-306/5 BC. Head of Apollo left, with long hair, wearing laurel wreath / Kithara; ΣYPAKO-ΣIΩN at sides. Jenkins,
Electrum, Group A, dies f/e; BAR Issue 11; HGC 2, 1295; SNG Fitzwilliam 1295–8; BMC 268; Dewing 937–9; Ars Classica XVI, lot 796 (same dies). EF, lightly toned, minor cleaning marks, light scuffing and short scratch on reverse. Well centered and struck.
Ex Triton XIX (5 January 2016), lot 64; Numismatica Ars Classica 78 (26 May 2014), lot 219.