Triton XXI, Lot: 336. Estimate $4000. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Gela. Circa 490/85-480/75 BC. AR Didrachm (22mm, 8.53 g, 10h). Warrior, nude but for helmet, riding right, preparing to cast javelin held aloft in his right hand / Forepart of man-headed bull right; CEΛAΣ above; all within shallow circular incuse. Jenkins,
Gela, Group Ib, 34A (O11/R15’); HGC 2, 363; SNG Lockett 758; BMC 22; Boston MFA 242; Hunterian 8; Waddington 7187 (all from the same dies). EF, toned, slight die wear on obverse.
Ex Palombo 13 (13 December 2014), lot 6.