445, Lot: 35. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2701. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Gela. Circa 490/85-480/75 BC. AR Didrachm (20.5mm, 8.60 g, 1h). Horseman riding right, preparing to cast javelin / Forepart of man-headed bull right; CEΛA above; all within circular incuse. Jenkins,
Gela, Group Id, 81 (O25/R40); HGC 2, 363; BMC 955 (same dies); Winterthur 639 = Pozzi 434 (same dies). Near EF, old cabinet tone, off center on obverse, die break on reverse.
Ex Gasvoda Collection; Numismatica Ars Classica 78 (26 May 2014), lot 1364; Rockefeller University/Dr. Alfred E. Mirsky Collection (Gemini VII, 9 January 2011), lot 99.