Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 75. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Panormos. Time of Pyrrhos of Epiros. Circa 280-275 BC. AV Tritartemorion - 1/16th Stater (0.54 gm). Struck circa 276 BC. Helmeted head of Athena right / Owl standing right; PA monogram to left. SNG ANS 576; SNG Lloyd 1671 (Tauromenion; same dies); SNG Copenhagen -; Jameson -; Gulbenkian -; Pozzi -; Weber 1736 (Tauromenion; same dies); BMC Sicily pg. 122, 6. Nice Fine. Very rare. ($1000)

From the James A. Ferrendelli Collection. Ex Classical Numsimatic Group 29 (30 March 1994), lot 32.

This small gold tritartemorion, struck on the Attic standard, was probably a donative issue struck after the capture of Panormos by Pyrrhos of Epiros. The tritartemorion and companion hemiobol (see lot 76 below) both carry the same ethnic monogram and have in the past been attributed to Tauromenion (see Head, HN, pg.188), as this monogram is also found on their coinage.