294, Lot: 129. Estimate $500. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Philistis, wife of Hieron II. 275-215 BC. AR 16 Litrai – Tetradrachm (28mm, 13.67 g, 11h). Struck circa 218/7-214 BC. Diademed and veiled bust left; cornucopia behind / Nike driving galloping quadriga right; monogram to lower right. CCO –; cf. BAR Issue 65. Near VF, toned, somewhat ragged flan, rough cleaning marks. Unpublished issue for Philistis with these markings.

From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection. Ex Gustav Philipsen Collection (Part I, J. Hirsch XV, 28 May 1906), lot 1274.

The monogram is known on a very rare issue of Philistis’s 16 litrai (CCO 87), but the combination cornucopia-monogram is known on an extremely rare issue of oktadrachms of Hieron II (CCO 14).