Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 108. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Agathokles. 317-289 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.09 gm). Circa 305-295 BC. KORAS, wreathed head of Kore right, wearing single-pendant earring and necklace / AGAQOKLEOS, Nike standing right, erecting trophy; AI monogram between Nike and trophy, triskeles to outer right. Ierardi 91 (O18/R60); SNG ANS -; SNG Lloyd -; SNG Copenhagen -; Gulbenkian 334 (same obverse die); SNG Munich 1266 var. (same obverse die, monogram left); McClean 2835 var. (same obverse die, monogram left). Toned, good VF. Very rare variety with the monogram centrally located, only six specimens cited by Ierardi. ($2000)

Ex Sternberg XXIX (30-31 October 1995), lot 47.