Exceptional Gela Bronze
Ex MoneyMuseum Collection

392, Lot: 54. Estimate $750. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Gela. Circa 420-405 BC. Æ Tetras or Trionkion (18.5mm, 4.86 g, 7h). Bull standing left; olive leaf and ΓEΛAΣ above, ••• (mark of value) in exergue / Horned head of Gelas right; barley grain to left. Jenkins, Gela, Group VIII-IX, 513.1 = BMC 67 (same dies); CNS 32; HGC 2, 379. EF, dark green patina with traces of brown. Fine style, and exceptional for issue.

From the MM Collection. Ex collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich (Triton XVIII, 6 January 2015), lot 351; Münzen und Medaillen AG 90 (14 June 2000), lot 210.