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Auction 100 - Part 2  7 October 2015
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Lot 1295

Estimate: 2000 USD
Price realized: 3500 USD
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SICILY, Syracuse. Philistis, wife of Hieron II. 275-215 BC. AR 16 Litrai – Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.22 g, 8h). Struck circa 218/7-215 BC. Diademed and veiled head left; torch to right / Nike, holding reins in both hands, driving fast quadriga left; E to left. CCO 43 (D12/R43); BAR Issue 65; HGC 2, 1553 corr. (reference); BMC 552 (same rev. die); McClean 2916 (same rev. die); Pozzi 658 (same rev. die). EF, bright surfaces, minor roughness along edge. Very rare with reverse type left, only one die listed in CCO.

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