CNG 100, Lot: 1296. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Philistis, wife of Hieron II. 275-215 BC. AR 16 Litrai – Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 13.46 g, 9h). Struck circa 218/7-215 BC. Diademed and veiled head left; wreath to right / Nike, holding reins in both hands, driving slow quadriga right; Φ above. CCO 168 (D11/R21); BAR Issue 65; HGC 2, 1556; SNG ANS 874 (same dies); Boston MFA 475 (same obv. die); Burnett, Enna 26 (same dies); Gillet 682 (same dies); Jameson 878 (same obv. die). EF, toned, minor die shift on obverse.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection, purchased from Maison Platt, June 1988.