393, Lot: 7. Estimate $150. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Timoleon and the Third Democracy. 344-317 BC. Æ Hemidrachm (24mm, 13.44 g, 5h). Timoleontic Symmachy coinage. 1st series, circa 344-339/8 BC. Laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios right / Upright thunderbolt; to right, eagle standing right. Castrizio series I, 1γ; CNS 72; HGC 2, 1440. Fine, dark green-brown patina, some roughness.

From the Dr. Lawrence D. Sporty Collection. Ex Ancient Imports Inventory 21116; William C. Boyd Collection (not from Baldwin’s 42 sale); purchased from Baldwin’s in 1890.