Ex Consul Weber Collection

Triton XIX, Lot: 67. Estimate $7500. Sold for $14000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Hiketas II. 287-278 BC. AV 60 Litrai – Dekadrachm (15.5mm, 4.24 g, 5h). Struck circa 279/8 BC. Head of Persephone left, wearing wreath of grain ears, single-pendant earring, and necklace; [ΣYPAKOΣIΩ]N to left, torch to right / Nike, holding kentron in right hand, reins in left, driving fast biga right; moon above, Θ below. Buttrey, Morgantina, dies 3/G; BAR issue 41; HGC 2, 1277; SNG Lloyd 1523 = Bement 543; SNG Fitzwilliam 1361; Consul Weber 721 (this coin); Hunterian 185 (all from the same dies). Superb EF, attractively toned, a little off center on obverse.

Ex Hess-Leu (2 April 1958), lot 105; Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber Collection (Part I, J. Hirsch XXI, 16 November 1908), lot 721.