CNG 105, Lot: 32. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Syracuse. Agathokles. 317-289 BC. AR Stater (20mm, 8.55 g, 3h). Struck circa 317-306/5 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with griffin on the bowl / Pegasos flying left; triskeles below. Pegasi 9 (same obv. die as illustration); BAR Issue 3; HGC 2, 1402; SNG ANS 554–6 (same obv. die); Triton XIX, lot 63 (same dies). Near EF, toned.
Ex Helios 1 (17 April 2008), lot 31; Comtesse de Béhague Collection (Vinchon, 14 April 1984), lot 32.