Watch List notes:

SICILY, Syracuse. Philistis, wife of Hieron II. 275-215 BC. AR 16 Litrai – Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.60 g, 1h). Struck circa 240-218/5 BC. Diademed and veiled head left; grain ear to right / Nike driving quadriga right; crescent above, KIΣ to right, grain ear below. CCO 74.1 (D18/R51 – this coin); BAR Issue 65; HGC 2, 1554. Near EF, attractively toned.


Ex Herbert Cahn Collection (Numismatica Genevensis SA 7, 27 November 2012), lot 37; Auctiones AG 15 (18 September 1985), lot 49.