Triton XX, Lot: 48. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Gela. Circa 490/85-480/75 BC. AR Didrachm (20mm, 8.42 g, 1h). Warrior, nude but for helmet, riding right, preparing to cast javelin held aloft in his right hand / Forepart of man-headed bull right; CEΛA above; all within shallow circular incuse. Jenkins, Gela, Group Ib, 18 (O7/R10); HGC 2, 363; SNG ANS 5 (same obv. die); SNG Lewis 306 (same dies). EF, iridescent toning, die break on reverse.

Ex Tony Hardy Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 67, 22 September 2004), lot 247.