Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 117. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Hieronymos. 215-214 BC. AR 5 Litrai (4.22 g, 7h). Diademed head left / Winged thunderbolt; BAΣIΛEΩΣ and ΦI above, IEPΩNYMOY below. Holloway 38 (O19/R30); BAR issue 80; SNG ANS 1034 var. (control letters); SNG Lloyd 1566 var. (same); BMC 221 var. (same); SNG München 1424 var. (same); Pozzi 662 var. (same). Near EF, lightly toned. Extremely rare issue, only one example with ΦI recorded by Holloway.