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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 99. Estimate $2500. 
Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003. 
Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, the Krimissan Alliance. Circa 320 BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.72 gm). OMONOIA, laureate female head (Homonoia or Concordia) right / KIMISS-AIWN, flaming horned altar, garlanded, with branches at sides. Jameson 559; Basel 346 (same dies); discussed by A.J. Evans, "On an Alliance Coin of Western Sicily, with the Altar of the Krimissos," NumChron 1896, pg.140-143. Toned EF. Very Rare. ($2500)

Evans suggests that this coin depicts an altar near the Krimissos river and the alliance (Homonoia) between two or more cities of the region, probably Segesta and Panormos.