Lot 26: Sicily, Zankle-Messana. Ca. 500-493 B.C. AR drachm. Rare Zankle-Messana Drachm. 
AUCTION: Triskeles - Auction 15 (Auction 318)
- Sold Winning Bid: $1,900
- 3 Bid(s)
Sicily, Zankle-Messana. Ca. 500-493 B.C. AR drachm (21 mm, 6.00 g). DANKLE, dolphin swimming left within sickle-shaped harbor / Nine-part incuse square with scallop shell in center. Gielow grp. 4 (dies not recorded); Asyut 10; SNG ANS 298-303. Rare. Rough deposits. Very fine.
Cumaean and Euboean settlers founded the city of Zankle on the northeastern coast of Sicily sometime during the eighth century B.C. The place took its name from the shape of its harbor, and means "sickle." In 488 B.C., the city was overshadowed by Rhegion, the mainland town on the coast of Italy directly opposite Zankle, whose tyrant, Anaxilas, settled colonists from Messenia in the Peloponnese there. Henceforth the city was known as Messana after these new colonists.
- Offered By: Barry P. Murphy
- Lot #: 26
- Listing #: 231264
- Closed: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 4:08:20 PM CT
- Estimate: $2,500