CoinsGreek3rd century BCE
Litra of Tauromenion, Sicily
274 BCE-216 BCE
Artists
Hieron IICoin Constituent
Description
Obv.: Bull's head facing. Border of dots. Rev.: TAUROM Bunch of grapes. Linear border.
Dimensions
0.83 g
Provenance
[Feuardent, Paris, “Collection d’un artiste français” sale, June 9-10, 1913, lot 134]. [Henry Grunthal and Numismatic Fine Arts/Edward Gans, New York, “R. Melchior and others” sale, June 5, 1950, lot 103], sold; to Arthur Stone Dewing [1], Cambridge, MA (from 1950), lent; to Fogg Art Museum (from 1965) [1] Arthur Stone Dewing (1880-1971). An inventory card by A.S. Dewing reads “Grunthal-Gans auction June 5, 1950 #103.”
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