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Wednesday November 13, 2019 Italy 114 kavel TRUE Inzet Lucania 2916 Thurium - AR Stater (ca 425-400 BC, 7.78 g) - Athena to right, wearing crested Athenian helmet ornamented with olive wreath / Bull walking to right, head down, tunny fish in ex. (cf. SNG ANS 907) - VF/XF, grey silver patina 175 2917 Sybaris - AR Diobol (ca. 453-448, 1.17 g) - Poseidon advancing right, holding raised trident / Bull standing right (HN Italy 1748) - a.VF, very rare 30 2918 Metapontum - AR 1/6 Stater (ca. 500 BC, 0.98 g) - Six grain ear of corn, META retrogade / Incuse Bucranium (SNG Cop. Cop. 1176- 1178) - a.VF, rare 40 Sicily 2919 AR Tetradrachm, time of Hieron I (ca 480-475 BC, 17.21 g) - Charioteer, holding reins, driving quadriga right (Nike above, flying to right, crowning horses) / Head of Arethusa right, ΣVRΑKΟΣΙΟΝ and four dolphins around (SNG ANS 76, same reverse die / Cosimo 237, same dies / Randazzo 380–1, same dies) - a good VF, well-centered 250 2920 AR Didrachm (c. 540-515 BC, 8.29 g) - Selinon leaf with 2 pellets below / Incuse square divided into ten sections (HGC 2, 1209) - VF 150 Sicily / Akragas 2921 AR Didrachm (ca. 480-470 BC, 8.64 g) - Sea eagle standing right / Crab within shallow incuse circle (cf. SNG ANS 954–5) - good VF, nicely centered 75 Sicily / Gela 2922 AR Didrachm (ca. 490-475 BC, 7.65 g) - Nude warrior holding javelin, on horseback right / Forepart of man-headed bull right, CEΛA (retrograde) in field, all within shallow incuse circle (HGC 2, 363) - F 100 2923 AR Litra (ca. 465-450 BC, 0.73 g) - Horse standing right, with bridle loose Iwreath in field above) / Forepart of the river-god Gelas (man-headed bull) to right (SNG Fitzwilliam 993 / Jenkins 260-262) - VF/XF 30 2924 2925 2926 Sicily / Himera 2924 AE Tetras or Trionkion (ca. 425-409 BC10.18 g) - Gorgoneion / Three pellets (mark of value) (HGC 2, 467) - VF 50 Sicily / Morgantina 2925 The Sikeliotes - AR 8 Litrai (ca. 214-212 BC, 6.85 g) - Veiled head of Persephone left, wreathed grain ears, leaf behind / ΣIKEΛIΩTAN Nike, holding kentron and reins, driving galloping quadriga right, monogram above (SNG ANS 1168) - . Obv. slightly double-struck, VF/XF, nice patina, a rare coin 400 Sicily / Selinos 2926 AR Didrachm (ca. 540-515 BC, 6.70 g) - Selinon leaf, two pellets below / Incuse square divided into sections (HGC 2, 1209 / SNG Ashm. 1888) - a.XF 200 2927 Sicily / Syracuse 2927 AV Double Decadrachm (ca. 304-289, 5.76 g) - Head of Athena right, wearing earring, necklace and crested Corinthian helmet with bowl decorated with griffin / ΑΓΑΘΟΚΛΕΟΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΟΣ Winged thunderbolt (TΡ monogram in ex.) (BMC 416) - a.XF, rare 1500 2928 2928 Hieron I (478-466 BC) - AR Tetradrachm (ca. 478-475 BC, 17.26 g) - Charioteer driving biga right, above, Nike flying right, crown- ing horses / Diademed head of Arethusa right, four dolphins around (cf. HGC 2, 1306) - VF/XF 150 2916 2917 2918 2919 2920 2921 2922 2923