Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1041. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Philistis, wife of Hieron II. 275-215 BC. AR 16 Litrai – Tetradrachm (13.51 g, 4h). Struck circa 218/7-214 BC. Diademed and veiled bust left; grain ear behind / Nike driving galloping quadriga right; crescent above, KIΣ to right, grain ear below. CCO 71 (D17/R48); BAR Issue 65; SNG ANS 882; SNG Lloyd 1542; SNG Fitzwilliam 1394; SNG Lockett 1013; Jameson 879; Dewing 956; McClean 2915 (all from the same dies). Near EF, toned, die wear on obverse, slight die shift on reverse.

Ex Constantine D.J. Generales Collection (Stack’s, 4 December 1984), lot 74.