CNG 106, Lot: 42. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Syracuse. Timoleon and the Third Democracy. 344-317 BC. AV 30 Litrai – Quarter Stater (12mm, 2.15 g, 9h). Struck circa 344-339/8 BC. Head of Zeus Eleutherios left, wearing laurel wreath; [ZEY]Σ EΛEY-[ΘEPIOΣ] around / Pegasos flying left; ΣYP-A-KOΣIΩN around, AP monogram to left, three pellets below. HGC 2, 1284 (this coin illustrated); SNG ANS 493; SNG Lloyd 1440; Jameson 851; Rizzo pl. LVIII, 1 (all from the same dies). Good VF, underlying luster. Rare in this condition.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group 91 (19 September 2012), lot 69; Stack’s (11 January 2010), lot 66; Triton VI (14 January 2003), lot 114.