SICILY, Zankle-Messana. Circa 500 BC. AR Drachm (5.48 gm). DANKLE,
 dolphin swimming left within sickle-shaped harbor / Nine part incuse
 square with scallop shell in center. Gielow 30ff (dies not listed); SNG
 ANS 300ff. Toned, good VF. ($2500) From the Robert Schonwalter
 Collection. Ex Dr. Richard P. Ariagno Collection, Part II (Bowers and
 Ruddy, 9-11 June 1980), lot 34. The colony originally called Zankle,
 meaning sickle after the shape of its
 harbour, was founded by Cumaean and Euboean settlers in the eighth
 century BC on the straits of Messina. It prospered, founding colonies at
 Mylae and
 Himera, but was overshadowed by Rhegion, whose tyrant, Anaxilas, seized
 it in
 490/89. Samian and Messenian settlers arrived in 486 and changed the name
 of the city to Messene.

Triton V Sale, 16 Jan 2002, lot 1187.


Lot was unsold.