Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 312. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $355. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Hieron II. 275-215 BC. Æ Hemilitron (20.10 g, 9h). Struck circa 230-218/5 BC. Diademed head left; bucranium behind / Warrior, holding couched lance, on horse rearing right; N below. CCO period IIb; BAR issue 62; CNS 195 Ds 18 R1 22; SNG ANS 946. Good VF, brown patina.

From the J.-P. Righetti Collection (with his ticket, marked 10434).