Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 176. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Timoleon and the Third Democracy. 344-317 BC. Æ Tetras (17.92 g, 4h). Timoleontic Symmachy coinage. 1st series, circa 344-339/8 BC. Laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios right / Thunderbolt. Castrizio series 1, 1α; CNS 70; SNG ANS 470-1. VF, dark green patina, die break on obverse. Attractive strike.

From the D. Alighieri Collection.