A Very Important Series of Coins of Syracuse mostly from a Distinguished European Collector
Decadrachm or 60 litrae 274-216, AV 4.26 g. Head of Persephone l., wearing barley wreath; behind, palm branch tied with fillet. Rev. Prancing biga driven r. by charioteer holding reins; in exergue, [Ι]ΕΡΩΝΟΣ. McClean 2902 (this obverse die). Weber 1700 (this obverse die). Gulbenkian 349 (this obverse die). Carroccio 57.
In exceptional condition for the issue. Obverse from a slightly
rusty die, otherwise virtually as struck and almost FdcδδδδδδEx Künker 248, 2014, 7123 and NAC 84, 2015, 582 sales.