Ex Freedman and Virzi Collections

Triton XX, Lot: 63. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Messana. 338-318 BC. Æ Dilitron (26mm, 15.20 g, 3h). Head of Poseidon left, wearing laurel wreath; ΠOΣEI-ΔAN around / Ornate trident head; dolphins downward at sides, M-E-Σ-Σ-AN-IΩ-N around. Caltabiano Group XVII, Group I, 710.1 (D2/R2) = CNS 12/3 = Virzi 1145 (this coin); HGC 2, 833; SNG ANS 391 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 420; SNG Morcom 617; Laffaille 176; Pozzi 1106 (same dies). Good VF, red-brown patina.

From the JMG Collection. Ex David Freedman Collection (Triton V, 15 January 2002), lot 197; Thomas Virzi Collection (Leu 6, 8 May 1973), lot 159.