Watch List notes:

SICILY, Messana (as Zankle). Circa 500-493 BC. AR Drachm (22mm, 5.72 g). Dolphin left; DANKLE below; all within sickle-shaped harbor / Nine-part incuse square with scallop shell in center. Gielow 62; HGC 2, 766; SNG ANS 302; SNG Lloyd 1076; Basel 359 (same obv. die); Boston MFA 285; Kraay & Hirmer 49; Rizzo pl. XXV, 4-5. Near EF, attractively toned. Great metal and strike.


Ex Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 271, 11 January 2012), lot 4; Phoenix Art Museum Collection (Triton II, 1 December 1998), lot 188; Orme Lewis Sr. Collection; Numismatica Ars Classica 10 (9 April 1997), lot 49; Sternberg XX (20 April 1988), lot 111.