Hemistater - Pyrrhus of Epirus

Features

Issuer	Syracuse (Sicily)
Król	Pyrrhus of Epirus (278 BC - 276 BC)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	278 BC - 276 BC
Value	½ Gold Stater (10)
Currency	Drachma poddasza
Composition	Złoto
Weight	4.24 g
Diameter	16 mm
Shape	Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique	Młotkowana
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 426782
References	BMC Greek# 2-5 British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes). , BostonMFA# 470 Agnes Baldwin Brett; 1955. Catalogue of Greek Coins. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. , Jameson# 1125-1126 Robert Jameson. Collection R. Jameson. Feuardent, Paris, France (4 volumes). , Gulbenkian# 911 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (publisher). A Catalogue of the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection of Greek Coins. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (2 volumes). , Du Chastel# 170 François de Callataÿ, Johan van Heesch; 1999. Greek and Roman Coins from the Du Chastel Collection: Coin Cabinet of the Royal Library of Belgium. Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom. , SNG ANS 5# 826-827 Denyse Bérend; 1988. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Collection of the American Numismatic Society / Part 5. Sicily 3 (Syracuse-Siceliotes). American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States. , SNG Fitzwilliam# 1372 Fritz Heichelheim. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume IV - The Fitzwilliam Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (8 volumes). , de Luynes# 1895-1897 Jean Babelon, Louis Ciani (ed.), Jules Florange (ed.). Catalogue de la collection de Luynes - monnaies grecques. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France (4 volumes). , SNG Newnham Davis# 183 Edward George Spencer-Churchill; 1936. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (Great Britain) / Volume 1.2. The Newnham Davis Coins in the Wilson Collection of Classical and Eastern Antiquities: Marischal College, Aberdeen. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom. , Bement# 971 William S. Kundig (ed.); 1924. Collection Clarence S. Bement / Monnaies grecques antiques en or et en argent. Naville & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland (2 volumes).

Obverse

(en) Head of Artemis to righ, bow and quiver at shoulder.

Reverse

(en) Nike walking left, holding wreath and trophy.

Script: grecki

Lettering: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠYPPOY

Mint

Syracuse, Italy

Comments

Pozzi 1286; Sartiges 231.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (278 BC - 276 BC)								$ 52 000

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Nomos AG Auction 37 Lot 96	16 Nov 2025	XF	USD 53 317.90 (CHF 42 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Nomos AG
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Künker Auction 376 Lot 4387	18 Oct 2022	XF	USD 98 915.77 (EUR 85 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Osnabrück and Lübke & Wiedemann KG, Leonberg
	Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 120 Lot 309	6 Oct 2020	XF	USD 53 952.63 (CHF 42 500.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	Nomos AG Auction 13 Lot 140	7 Oct 2016	XF	USD 76 168.42 (CHF 60 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Nomos AG
	Roma Numismatics Auction 5 Lot 162	23 Mar 2013	XF	USD 40 367.99 (GBP 30 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Roma Numismatics Limited
	Sincona AG Auction 10 Lot 39	27 May 2013	XF	USD 45 701.05 (CHF 36 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
From James et Sneja Velkov collection; ex Jean Vinchon, Paris, 24 November 1994, lot 50; Feuardent, Paris, May 1908, lot 274
© Sincona AG
	The New York Sale Auction 3 Lot 107	7 Dec 2000	XF	USD 12 500.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Münzhandlung Lanz, Munich 46 (1986), 116 and Leu Numismatik AG, Zurich 65 (1996), 109
© The New York Sale
	Leu Numismatik Auction 7 Lot 1135	24 Oct 2020	VF	USD 58 395.79 (CHF 46 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
From Dr. F. Imhoof-Blumer, Gustav Adolf von Rauch, R. Peyrefitte and Theodor Prowe collections; ex Egger XL, 2 May 1912, 855; Hess, 12 March 1906, 458
© Leu Numismatik