Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 113. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Hiketas. 289-278 BC. AV Hemistater - Dekadrachm (4.23 gm). Struck circa 279/8 BC. SURAKOSIW[N], head of Persephone left, hair wreathed in grain ears; torch behind / EPI IKETA, Nike driving galloping biga right, holding kentron in right hand, reins in left; moon above, Q below horses. T.V. Buttrey, "The Morgantina Gold Hoard and the Coinage of Hicetas" in NumChron 1973, dies 3-D; SNG ANS 776 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1523 (same obverse die); SNG Copenhagen 798 var. (obverse symbol); Jameson 871 (same dies); Gulbenkian 345 var. (same); Pozzi -; Weber -. EF, slight reverse double-strike. [See color enlargement on plate 3] ($5000)

From the James A. Ferrendelli Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (13 April 1993), lot 18.

This issue was struck by Hiketas to finance his campaign against the Carthaginians.