448, Lot: 36. Estimate $300. Sold for $265. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off SICILY, Lipara. Circa 440-420 BC. Æ Hexas or Dionkion (24.5mm, 13.42 g, 10h). Head of Aiolos right, wearing pilos / Two pellets (mark of value) above and below ΛΙΠ. CNS 6; HGC 2, 1763. Green-brown patina, some smoothing and tooling. VF.

From the Midwest Collection.

Aiolos was the god of the winds in Greek mythology. He was associated with the group of islands between Sicily and Italy, which were appropriately named the Aiolian Islands, of which Lipara was the largest and most important. In fact, Aiolos himself supposedly resided on the island of Lipara, hence his representation of their coins.