Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 238. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Enna. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Litra (0.71 gm). Demeter, holding grain ears, driving quadriga right / Demeter standing facing, head left, holding torch over altar. Jenkins, "The Coinages of Enna, Galaria, Piakos, Imachara, Kephaloidion and Longane," AIIN 20 (1975), pl. IV, a-d; SNG ANS -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC Sicily pg. 58, 1. VF, dark hoard patina, wavy flan. Extremely rare and not represented in most of the major collections. ($1000)

From the Tony Hardy Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 54 (14 June 2000), lot 276.

Enna, the "navel of Sicily", is very close to the site where Hades abducted Persephone and took her to the underworld. Understandably, it was the major center for worship of Demeter and Persephone. Jenkins knew of only seven specimens of this coin, from two obverse and four reverse dies. The obverse die of this specimen is one of the two, but the reverse die is not among those published, raising that total to five.