Details
LOT 2995
Sicily, Syracuse AE 25mm. Time of Timoleon and the Third Democracy, circa 343-317 BC.
Laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios to right; ZE[ΥΣ ΕΛΕY]ΘΕPΙΟΣ around / Upright thunderbolt, eagle standing to right; ΣYPA[KOΣIΩN] around. CNS II, 72; SNG ANS 477-88; HGC 2, 1440. Good Very Fine.(16.44gr, 25mm, 10h.).
Provenance
From an English private collection, 1980s.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
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