415, Lot: 5. Estimate $2000. Sold for $5750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AV 20 Litrai – Tetradrachm (11mm, 1.15 g, 8h). Struck circa 405-400 BC. Head of Herakles left, wearing lion skin / Quadripartite incuse square, Σ-Y-P-A in quarters; in deeper incuse circle in center, small female head (Arethousa?) left, wearing necklace. Bérend pl. XI, 3; Boehringer, Münzprägungen, pl. I, 6; HGC 2, 1289. EF, lustrous, light graze on high point of obverse.

From the D. Massey Collection.