Watch List notes:

SICILY, Syracuse. Timoleon and the Third Democracy. 344-317 BC. Æ Hemidrachm (24mm, 15.58 g, 2h). Timoleontic Symmachy coinage. 1st series, circa 344-339/8 BC. Laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios right / Upright thunderbolt; barley grain to right. Castrizio Series I, 1β; CNS 71; HGC 2, 1440. Brown patina. VF.

From the Peter J. Merani Collection. Ex Nomos Obolos 4 (21 February 2016), lot 104 (reportedly from a Czech collector who purchased it from Karel Chaura, Prague [1869-1945]).