Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 67. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $625. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. Æ Hemilitron (3.70 g, 5h). Obverse die signed by the artist Phry(gillos). Struck circa 405-400 BC. Head of Arethusa left, hair in sphendone signed ΦPY on the back (barely visible); dolphin downward behind / Wheel of four spokes; dolphins in lower quarters. Cf. Boehringer, Münzprägungen pl. III, 25; CNS 19 fr 4; Favorito type 75 (c. 425-420 BC); SNG ANS 412-3. Good VF, dark brown patina, lightly smoothed. Rare.

Ex Astarte II (5 March 1999), lot 95.