141, Lot: 27. Estimate $100. Sold for $301. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Time of Agathokles to Hiketas. Circa 317-278 BC. Æ 23mm (9.16 g). Wreathed head of Persephone left; grain-ear behind / Charioteer in biga galloping right. SNG ANS 768. VF, brown patina.

It appears from the references that there are differing opinions concerning the exact placement of this issue. Some scholars place it during the reign of Agathokles, others during the republican period that followed, and still others during the reign of Hiketas. Here we have chosen not to take issue and simply reference it to the general period.