Ex Jameson Collection

CNG 97, Lot: 48. Estimate $5000. Sold for $14000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Hiketas II. 287-278 BC. AV 60 Litrai – Dekadrachm (16mm, 4.27 g, 12h). Struck circa 279/8 BC. Head of Persephone left, wearing wreath of grain ears, single-pendant earring, and necklace; ΣYPAKOΣIΩN to left, torch to right / Nike driving biga right; moon above, Θ below. Buttrey, Morgantina, dies 3/D, j = Jameson 871 (this coin); BAR issue 41; HGC 2, 1277; BMC 432 (same dies); Hirsch 677–8 (same dies); de Luynes 1340 (same dies); Sartiges 149 (same dies). Good VF, toned, minor die flaw and a little die rust on obverse, double struck on reverse.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection (Gemini V, 6 January 2009), lot 481; Stack’s (22 February 1989), lot 3; Robert Jameson Collection, 871; J. Hirsch XIV (27 November 1905), lot 234 (illustration of reverse switched with lot 235 on the plate).