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CNG 108, Lot: 22. Estimate $1500.
Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Philistis, wife of Hieron II. 275-215 BC. AR 16 Litrai – Tetradrachm (26mm, 12.99 g, 12h). Struck circa 240-218/5 BC. Diademed and veiled head left; wreath to right / Nike driving slow quadriga right; Φ above. CCO 166 (D10/R21); BAR Issue 65; HGC 2, 1556; SNG ANS 874 (same rev. die); McClean 1401 (same obv. die). EF, toned, die break on reverse.


Ex Volteia Collection (Classical Numismatic Review XLI/1, Spring 2016), no. 421933; Lanz 149 (24 June 2010), lot 61.