Ancient Gold - Byzantine
Lot 1982 SESSION 11 (7.30PM WEDNESDAY 26TH NOVEMBER) Ancient Gold - Byzantine
Estimate $350
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SICILY, Gela, (465-450 B.C.), silver litra, (0.65 g, 12mm), obv. horse standing to right, rein trailing from mouth, wreath above, dotted border, rev. forepart of man-headed bull to right, **GELA* above, (cf.S.791, Jenkins Gela Group III, SNG Cop. 272-3, HGC 2 373). Toned, struck on good metal, very fine and rare.
Ex Anthony "Tony" Taylor Collection.^CNG Auction 395, lot 21. From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind.^^
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