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LOT 2596
Sicily, Syracuse AV 25 Litrai or Sixth Stater. Time of Agathokles, 317-289 BC.
Struck circa 295-289 BC. Head of Persephone to left, wearing wreath of grain ears / Bull walking to left, ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ around. Bérend, l’or pl. 9, 14; SNG ANS 707; SNG Lloyd 1475; SNG Copenhagen 752; HGC 2, 1288. Near Extremely Fine.(1.41gr, 10mm, 9h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, Auction 3, 31 March 2012, lot 87.
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