From the Collections of Jameson and Philipsen

271, Lot: 12. Estimate $5000. Sold for $22000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Hiketas II. 287-278 BC. AR 15 Litrai – Tridrachm (23mm, 12.63 g, 6h). Head of Kore left, wearing wreath of grain ears, single-pendant earring, and necklace; bee to right / Nike, holding kentron in extended right hand, reins in left, driving fast quadriga left; star of eight rays above, [Σ]YPAKOΣIΩN in exergue. BAR Issue 37 (same dies as illustration); SNG ANS 754 (Fourth Democracy); SNG Lloyd 1524 var. (obv. symbol); SNG Lockett 1008 (same dies); Basel 517 var. (obv. symbol); Gulbenkian 346-7 (same dies); Jameson 872 (this coin). Good VF, toned. Very rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Triton II (1 December 1998), lot 271; Robert Jameson Collection, no. 872; Gustav Philipsen Collection (J. Hirsch XV, 29 November 1909), lot 1252.