Watch List notes:

SICILY, Himera. Circa 480-470 BC. AR didrachm (8,35 g). HIMERA, Cock standing left / Crab. Obverse struck slightly off centre and with some roughness in upper field. Lightly toned and very attractive in hand. This coinage was struck during the period when Himera was under control of the tyrant Theron. He ruled from 483/2 BC until his death in 473, when his son Thrasidaios took control of the cities. His reign was short-lived, and he was overthrown in 472/1 BC. The now free Himera participated in the general revolt against tyrants ruling the cities in Sicily and they aided the Syracusans in deposing Thrasyboulos who was the brother and successor of Hieron I. Grade:1+/01