139, Lot: 62. Estimate $75. Sold for $87. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Hieron II. 275-216 BC. AR 3 Chalkous (10mm, 0.71 g). Head of Athena left, wearing crested Corinthian helmet / XIII; three pellets to left, AF below. SNG ANS 907. VF, encrustation.

From the Tony Hardy Collection.

This coin was first attributed to the reign of Hieron by W. Giesecke, Sicilia Numismatica, pp. 126-7, and this attribution has been accepted by later numismatists, including Franke and Holloway. Gie