CNG 100, Lot: 14. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Agathokles. 317-289 BC. EL 25 Litrai – Quarter Stater (11.5mm, 1.88 g, 9h). Struck circa 310-306/5 BC. Head of Apollo left, with long hair, wearing laurel wreath / Kithara; ΣYPAKO-ΣIΩN at sides. Jenkins, Electrum, Group A, dies a/a; BAR Issue 11; HGC 2, 1295; SNG Fitzwilliam 1295–6 (same dies); BMC 268 (same dies); Dewing 937–9. EF, lustrous. Rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Classical Numismatic Group, November 1996.