Ex Jameson and Philipsen Collections

CNG 93, Lot: 80. Estimate $5000. Sold for $12000. 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); HGC 2, 1349; 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.

Ex Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 271, 11 January 2012), lot 12 (sold for hammer $22,000, but not paid); Triton II (1 December 1998), lot 271; Robert Jameson Collection, no. 872; Gustav Philipsen Collection (J. Hirsch XV, 29 November 1909), lot 1252.