379, Lot: 54. Estimate $500. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Syracuse. Philistis, wife of Hieron II. 275-215 BC. AR 16 Litrai – Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 13.29 g, 12h). Struck circa 240-218/5 BC. Diademed and veiled head left; grain ear to right / Nike driving quadriga right; crescent above, KIΣ to right, grain ear below. CCO 71 (D17/R48); BAR Issue 65; HGC 2, 1554; SNG ANS 882; Jameson 879; Pozzi 657 (all from the same dies). VF, toned, some die rust and roughness.
Ex Classical Numismatic Auctions X (21 March 1990), lot 13.