SICILY, Syracuse. Philistis, wife of Hieron II. 275-215 BC. AR 16 Litrai – Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 14.15 g, 1h). Struck circa 218/7-215 BC. Diademed and veiled head left; filleted palm frond to right / BAΣIΛIΣΣAΣ ΦIΛIΣTIΔOΣ, Nike, holding reins in both hands, driving slow quadriga right; A to right. CCO 186 (D2/R3); BAR Issue 65; HGC 2, 1556; SNG Fitzwilliam 1402 (same obv. die); Locker Lampson 110 (same dies). Lightly toned, slight die shift. EF. Stuck from artistic dies.
From the Weise Collection. Ex Antiqua FPL XIV (January 2007), no. 12.