Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 113. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Hieron II. 275-215 BC. Æ 16mm (3.28 g, 7h). Struck circa 269-263 BC. Head of Artemis (or Arethusa) left, hair bound in ampyx and sphendone; poppy head behind / Pegasos flying left; IEPΩNOΣ below. CCO period Ib; BAR issue 58; CNS 202 Ds 102; SNG Morcom 815; SNG ANS 1018; SNG Lloyd -; Basel -. EF, dark green patina, small void on head, light encrustation on reverse.

Ex Triton VIII (11 January 2005), lot 97; David Freedman Collection (Triton V, 15 January 2002), lot 268.