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CNG 100, Lot: 1289. Estimate $5000.
Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Agathokles. 317-289 BC. AV Drachm – Hemistater (15.5mm, 4.28 g, 1h). Struck circa 317-310 BC. Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath; tiny retrograde Σ below / Charioteer, holding kentron in extended right hand, reins in left, driving galloping biga right; triskeles below, ΣYP-AK-OΣ-IΩN around. Bérend, l’or pl. 9, 1; BAR Issue 1; HGC 2, 1276; SNG ANS 550; SNG Lloyd 1472–3 var. (obv. control mark); Basel –; Dewing 934 var. (same); Gulbenkian 327 var. (same). Near EF, toned, underlying luster.


From the Friend of a Scholar Collection. Ex Leu 36 (7 May 1985), lot 74; Leu 28 (5 May 1981), lot 47; Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 340 (November/December 1972), no. 3.