Lot 3555
Sale 133 · Important Australian, British, World, and Ancient Coins, Banknotes, and Medals
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Description
Sicily, Syracuse, Time of Dionysios the Elder, (c.405-380 B.C.), gold twenty litra or tetradrachm, (1.15 g), obv. head of young Herakles to left, wearing lion's skin, to left downwards **S* [YP]A, rev. incuse square, quartered with **S* - V /P - A, in centre a female head to left, (S.947, BMC 135 [p.215], SNG ANS 350-356). Nearly extremely fine, scarce.
Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 79, lot 3195. Previously J & P O'Connor, Town Hall Arcade, Sydney, November 1981.
With collector's packet.
- Estimate
- $2,000
- Result Status
- Sold
- Prices Realised
- $2,900