Watch List notes:

SICILY, Syracuse. Philistis, wife of Hieron II. 275-215 BC. AR 16 Litrai – Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.00 g, 4h). Struck circa 240-218/5 BC. Diademed and veiled head left; grain ear with fillet to right / Nike driving slow quadriga right; crescent above, Φ to right. CCO 143.1 (D2/R3) = Sartiges 153 (this coin); BAR Issue 65; HGC 2, 1554. Attractive old cabinet tone, some porosity, a few light scratches, minor roughness on obverse, edge marks. Near EF.


From the Batory Collection. Ex Heritage 3024 (19 April 2012), lot 24578 (hammer $3500); Rockefeller University/Dr. Alfred E. Mirsky Collection (Gemini VII, 9 January 2011), lot 188; Vicomte de Sartiges Collection.