Watch List notes:

SICILY. Syracuse. Dionysios I, 405-367 BC. Hemilitron (Bronze, 18 mm, 3.81 g, 12 h). Female head to left, with her hair bound by an ampyx in the front and a sphendone in the back. Rev. ΣYPA Dolphin swimming to right above scallop shell. Basel 489 (this coin). CNS II, 24. SNG ANS 417. A lovely coin with a wonderful turquoise patina. About extremely fine.


From the Kleinkunst Collection and from the collection of A. D. Moretti, Numismatica Ars Classica 13, 8 October 1998, 489.