173, Lot: 332. Estimate $150. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Hiketas II. 287-278 BC. Æ 24mm (10.93 g). Wreathed head of Persephone left / Female driving biga right; star above. Cf. CNS II 123; cf. SNG ANS 771. Good VF, brown patina with some green. The Persephone / Biga type normally has subsidiary control marks on obverse and/or reverse. This specimen, of good style on large flan, has no trace of such controls.

From the Alain Lagrange Collection. Ex Italo Vecchi 8 (12 April 1997), lot 34.