From the Gemini IV Auction, Closed January 8, 2008.



                  Lot # 287 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$2000 / Price 
                  Realized: US$1200 
                  Anonymous: Ear of wheat. Silver didrachm 



             



            Anonymous: Ear of wheat. Silver didrachm (6.47 gm). Sicily. Janiform 
            head of Dioscuri / Jupiter holding scepter and hurling thunderbolt 
            in chariot driven right by Victory, ear of wheat below horses, ROMA 
            in relief in linear frame below. Crawford 42/1. Charles Hersh, “A 
            Sicilian Quadrigatus mint: the issue with the wheat-ear control 
            mark,” Essays Carson and Jenkins (1993), 20 (O15/R14). Rare. A few 
            deposits. Extremely fine. 




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  ... Lot 287 sold for high bid of $1200 [ $1380, or approx 952.2 EUR, 703.8 GBP including the 15% buyers fee.] 

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