Watch List notes:

ANCIENT COINS, ANCIENT GREEK COINS, Sicily, Syracuse. Deinomenid Tyranny. Silver Litra (0.70 g), 485-466 BC. Under Hieron I, ca. 470-466 BC. V ( retrograde), Diademed head of Arethusa right. Rev. Octopus. (cf. Boehringer series XIiib, 449-67 (dies not recorded); SNG ANS 137-43). Toned. Extremely fine.

ex D. Alighieri Collection (CNG 81, 20 May 2009), lot 155.

Estimate: $ 400