327, Lot: 522. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Panormos(?). Late 2nd century BC. Æ (15mm, 3.79 g, 1h). Laureate head of Zeus right / Warrior standing left, holding patera and spear. Bahrfeldt Group II, unlisted variety; BAR –; CNS 206 lv 2; HGC 2, –; SNG Copenhagen 535. VF, attractive green patina.

From the Continental Collection.

Calciati concluded that the letters on the reverse of this series are meaningless, and thus they are “barbarous issues.” Accordingly, BAR and others do not list them among the coins of Panormos, but the introduction to Panormos in RPC I retains them at that city, and discusses the chronology of the series.