Extremely Rare Five Litrai

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1042. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Hieronymos. 215-214 BC. AR 5 Litrai (4.18 g, 9h). Diademed head left / Winged thunderbolt; KI above. Holloway 51 (O23/R40); BAR issue 80; SNG ANS -; BMC 221 (same dies); Hirsch 746 (same dies). EF, toned, tiny chip on edge. Extremely rare denomination for KI series, only four recorded by Holloway, with three in museums (Berlin, London, and Brussels).

Ex Hess-Divo 310 (22 October 2008), lot 46; Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 580 (March 1988), no. 7.