Triton XX, Lot: 181. Estimate $750. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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LAKONIA, Lakedaimon (Sparta). Circa 90-60/50 BC. AR Triobol (16mm, 2.34 g, 5h). Bearded head of Herakles right, wearing pearl diadem / Amphora, decorated with snake; flanked by Λ-A below pilei of the Dioskouroi; (ΠE)I to lower left, CIΠ to lower right; all within laurel wreath. Grunauer Group VIII, Series 17, 96-99 (obv. die 59); BCD Peloponnesos 876 (same obv. die); HGC 5, 613; SNG Copenhagen 559; BMC –; McClean 6749; Ward 550. EF, toned.
From the Kallman Collection. Ex Triton XI (8 January 2008), lot 183; BCD Collection (not in LHS sale); Stack’s (15 March 1979), lot 159.