Watch List notes:

SICILY, Piakos. Circa 420-400 BC. Æ Tetras (14mm, 2.70 g, 7h). Dies by the Maestro della Foglia (Master of the Leaf). Laureate head of river god left; six pellets interspersed in ethnic to left / Hound attacking stag right; acorn to left, leaf to right. Boehringer, Frühen 4 (this coin, illustrated); CNS 2; SNG ANS –; Rizzo pl. 60, 14; Basel 397 (this coin). VF, black and red patina, spots of green encrustation. Very rare.


Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Athos D. Moretti Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 13, 8 October 1998), lot 397.

Rizzo presumed this coinage to be the first whose dies were engraved by the legendary “Maestro della Foglia.”