Signed by IM – Illustrated by Boehringer

350, Lot: 51. Estimate $100. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. Æ Hemilitra (17.5mm, 3.55 g, 3h). Obverse die signed by the artist Im–. Struck circa 405-367 BC. Female head left, hair in ampyx and sphendone, no earrings; MI before neck / Dolphin right; shell below. CNS 24 fr 2; HGC 2, 1480; Boehringer, Münzprägungen pl. III, 28 (this coin). VF, dark red-brown patina, off center, double struck on reverse.

From the collection of a Southern Pathologist. Ex Emilio Favorito Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 78, 14 May 2008), lot 109a; Vecchi 15 (15 June 1999), lot 109.