CNG 100, Lot: 1295. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Philistis, wife of Hieron II. 275-215 BC. AR 16 Litrai – Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.22 g, 8h). Struck circa 218/7-215 BC. Diademed and veiled head left; torch to right / Nike, holding reins in both hands, driving fast quadriga left; E to left. CCO 43 (D12/R43); BAR Issue 65; HGC 2, 1553 corr. (reference); BMC 552 (same rev. die); McClean 2916 (same rev. die); Pozzi 658 (same rev. die). EF, bright surfaces, minor roughness along edge. Very rare with reverse type left, only one die listed in CCO.