Watch List notes:

Greek Coins
The Siceliotes

60 litrae, Morgantina circa 215-212, AV 4.27 g. Head of Kore-Persephone l., wearing barley wreath and necklace; behind, palm branch. Rev. Fast biga driven l. by Nike, holding kentron and reins; above, I-Σ. In exergue, ΣIKEΛIΩTAN. S. Mirone, Monnaies historiques de la Sicilie antique, Aréthuse 1927, pl. 15, 13 (this obverse die). E. Boehringer, NZ 42, 1935, pl. 8, 4 (this obverse die). E. Sjökvist, Numismatic Notes from Morgantina I, The Sikeliotan Coinage, ANS MN 9, 1960, pl. 6, 1 (this obverse die). K. Erim, The mint of Morgantina, Morgantina Studies II, p. 31, 1a (this obverse die). NAC sale 25, 2003, lot 96 (these dies).

Exceedingly rare, only very few specimens known. Slightly double-struck on
obverse, otherwise about extremely fine / extremely fine
Ex NAC 7, 1994, 193 and NAC 29, 2005, 104 sales.
This most rare and interesting coinage seems to have been struck to pay the indigenous allies of Syracuse just a little before the city's fall to Marcellus, and it is the product, like Hannibalic issues at Acragas, of an out-workshop of the metropolitan mint, The gold piece, a direct copy of the Hieronian gold Attic drachm (or 60 litrae or decadrachm) could have passed anywhere.