Sale: Triton X, Lot: 102. Estimate $1000. Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007. Sold For $1300. 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 (13.12 g, 11h). Struck circa 216-215 BC. Diademed and veiled bust left; [torch to right] /
[BA]SILISS[AS] FILISTIDOS, Nike driving galloping quadriga right, holding reins in both hands; E below horses. Burnett,
Enna 47 (same dies); SNG ANS 885/884 (same obv./rev. dies); SNG Lloyd -; Basel 533; Gulbenkian 355. EF, lightly toned.
Ex Rauch 41 (6 June 1988), lot 92.