Extremely Rare Paropos – HCG Plate Coin

374, Lot: 124. Estimate $100. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Paropos. Circa 200-150 BC. Æ Hexas (12.5mm, 1.70 g, 9h). Laureate head of Apollo right / Artemis standing left, holding patera and spear; hound at feet to left. Campana 3; BAR Issue 2; CNS 2; HGC 2, 1096 (this coin illustrated). Fine, brown patina. Extremely rare, only two examples noted by Campana, and this is the only coin of this city in CoinArchvies.

From the David Wray Collection. Ex Tony Hardy Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 130, 4 January 2006), lot 190.