Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 96. Estimate $6000. Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004. Sold For $5250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Syracuse. Timoleon and the Third Democracy. 344-317 BC. AV Hemidrachm - 30 Litrae (2.15 gm). Struck circa 344-335 BC.
[IEU]S ELEU[QERIOS], laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios left /
SUR-A-KOSIWN, Pegasos flying left; AP monogram before, three pellets below. S. Garrafo, "Zeus Eleutherios - Zeus Olympius" in
Annali 23-24 (1977), pl. 1, 8 (same reverse die); SNG ANS 493 corr. (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1440 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 710 corr. (same dies); Jameson 851 (same dies); Rizzo pl. 58, 1 (same dies); Gulbenkian -; Pozzi -; Weber 1639. EF. [See color enlargement on plate 2] ($7500)
From the James A. Ferrendelli Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 9 (16 April 1996), lot 233.