Ancient Gold Coins - Greek
Lot 3319 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday) Ancient Gold Coins - Greek
Estimate $1,500
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SICILY, Syracuse, time of Agathokles, (317-289 B.C.), electrum twenty five (25) litrai, (1.82 g), issued during the Carthaginian War c.310 B.C., obv. laureate head of Apollo head with long flowing to left, rev. **SUR[AK] SION* around, lyre with five strings, (S.958, Jenkins 'Electrum Coinage of Syracuse' Essays Robinson, p.155 (Pl.14), BMC 266ff, McLean 2778). Nearly very fine and rare.
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Estimate $1,500
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