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Auction 26  21 May 2023
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Lot 195

Estimate: 1000 CHF
Price realized: 3200 CHF
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SICILY. Tauromenion. Circa 275-216/2 BC. Litra (Silver, 10 mm, 0.87 g, 2 h). Bucranium. Rev. TAY-[P•]M Bunch of grapes. Buceti - (do note that Buceti 6, a litra dated to 344-338 is clearly a modern forgery). SNG ANS 1124. SNG Copenhagen 933. SNG Lockett 1029 (same dies). Very rare. A lovely, sharply struck and toned example. Extremely fine.
From the "Collection sans Pareille" of Ancient Greek Fractions, ex Münzen und Medailen FPL 549, November-December 1991, 9, from the collections of Arthur Colgate, Ars Classica XVI, 3 July 1933, 903, and the British Museum, Naville V, 18 June 1923, 1264 (bought by Baldwin's for Colgate against Ratto).
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