SICILY, Gela. Circa 490/85-480/75 BC. AR Didrachm (19.5mm, 8.63 g, 11h).

CNG Feature Auction 120
Lot: 46. Estimated: $ 5 000

Greek, Silver

Sold For $ 8 000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Go to Live

SICILY, Gela. Circa 490/85-480/75 BC. AR Didrachm (19.5mm, 8.63 g, 11h). Warrior, nude but for helmet, riding right, preparing to cast javelin held aloft in his right hand / Forepart of man-headed bull right; CE-ΛA to right and below. Jenkins, Gela, Group Ib, 28 (O9/R11); HGC 2, 363; SNG ANS 5; SNG Ashmolean 1720 (same dies); Boston MFA 241 (same dies); Kraay & Hirmer 156 (same dies). Lightly toned, slightly off center on obverse. EF.

Ex Emporium Hamburg 84 (2 March 2019), lot 18; Kricheldorf 49 (20 February 2017), lot 30; Peus 268 (24 April 1968), lot 14.


The final winners of all CNG 120 lots will be determined at the live online sale that will be held on 11-12 May 2022. CNG 120 – Session One – Greek Coinage (Part 1) will be held Wednesday morning, 11 May 2022 beginning at 9:00 AM ET.

Winning bids are subject to a 20% buyer's fee for bids placed on this website and 22.50% for all others.

We recognize that our users may have various Internet Browsers and Operating Systems. We like our visitors to have the best possible experience when using our bidding platform. However, we do recognize that it is impossible to develop applications that work identically, efficiently and effectively on all web browsers. The CNG bidding platform supports the latest stable major version and the stable previous version of Mozilla Firefox and Chrome.