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Triton XVIII, Lot: 352. Estimate $500.
Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Himera. Circa 425-409 BC. Æ Hexas or Dionkion (13mm, 1.88 g, 12h). Pan, blowing into conch shell in his right hand and cradling lagobolon in left arm, riding goat springing left; below, fish left / Nike flying left, holding aphlaston in extended right hand, left hand holding hem of chiton; •• (mark of value) to left, IMERA-[I]ON below. Kraay, Bronze, p. 44, 2c; CNS 34; HGC 2, 478 (this coin illustrated); SNG ANS –; SNG Copenhagen 319; SNG Lloyd –; Virzi 1043. EF, dark green patina, obverse a little off center. Very rare.


From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 48 (21 October 2008), lot 31.