Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 709. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $5250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Agathokles. 317-289 BC. AV Stater - Double Dekadrachm (5.68 g, 10h). Struck circa 304-289 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing Corinthian helmet decorated with a griffin / AGAQOKLEOS BASILEOS, winged thunderbolt; monogram below. Bérend, l'or pl. 9, 8 (same obv. die); Jenkins pl. 15, C; SNG ANS 704 (same dies); cf. SNG Copenhagen 778; SNG Manchester 518 (same dies); Pozzi 648 = Pozzi (Boutin) 1327 (same dies). Superb EF, very light cleaning marks, tiny spots of encrustation. ($4000)

Ex Moreira Collection (Superior 138, 31 May 1998), lot 1786; Distinguished American Collection (Leu 52, 15 May 1991), lot 28.