130, Lot: 169. Estimate $100. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Morgantina. Time of Timoleon. Circa 344-317 BC. AR 1 1/4 Litra (12mm, 0.84 g). Three-quarter facing head of Athena, slightly right, wearing crested helmet / Nike seated left on rocky ground, holding a wreath in her extended right hand. Buttrey,
Morgantina Studies II, 3, pl. 1, 11 (O1/R1); SNG ANS 464 (same dies). Near VF, glossy dark toning, surfaces heavily scratched.
From the Tony Hardy Collection.