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ANCIENT GREECE - GREEK
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780
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ANCIENT GREECE - GREEK
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Estimate €3,000
Voluntary lot
Description
ANCIENT GREECE - GREEK
Sicily, Siculo-Punic coinage. Half-shekel ND (213–211 BC), Agrigento (Akragas).
Obverse: Male head (Triptolemus?) facing right, wearing a wreath of wheat ears.
Reverse: Within a laurel wreath, a horse galloping to the right, with the Punic letter H below.
HGC 2, - (cf. 172, 1/4 shekel) - Walker, 1984, II/7 - Burnett, Enna Hoard, SNR 62, 143 (same weight); Silver - 4.32 g - 22 mm - 12 h
From a Jean Vinchon Numismatique auction, 28 April 1997, lot no. 42.
NGC Ch AU 5/5 4/5 (8769658-011).
Heavy in weight, corresponding to the Enna Treasury no. 143. Quite rare and of exceptional quality for this type, on a very large blank. The patina is old and deep. Superb in proof condition.
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