Watch List notes:

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy, 466-405 BC. Didrachm (Gold, 8mm, 0.66 g 11), struck circa 405. ΣVΡΑ (partially retrograde and upside down) Head of Athena to right, wearing Attic helmet with crests but without side flaps. Rev. Aegis. Chr. Boehringer, Zu Finanzpolitik und Münzprägung des Dionysios von Syrakus, Essays Thompson p. 16 and pl. 38, 9. SNG ANS 316. SNG Munich 1087. Very rare. Minor traces of die rust, otherwise, extremely fine.


Ex Hess-Divo 325, 23 October 2013 and from the collection of J. and S.D. Velkov, Vinchon 24 November 1994, 17.