Watch List notes:

SICILY, Gela. Circa 490/85-480/75 BC. AR Didrachm (20.5mm, 8.65 g, 10h). Warrior, nude but for helmet, riding right, preparing to cast javelin held aloft in his right hand / Forepart of man-headed bull right; CE-ΛA to right and below. Jenkins, Gela, Group Ib, 28 (O9/R11); HGC 2, 363; SNG ANS 5; SNG Ashmolean 1720 (same dies); SNG Lloyd –; Boston MFA 241 (same dies); Kraay & Hirmer 156 (same dies); Kampmann p. 12, middle (this coin). EF, toned, traces of undertype, traces of find patina.


From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Leu 71 (24 October 1997), lot 47.