SICILY, Syracuse. Philistis, wife of Hieron II. 275-215 BC. AR 16 Litrai – Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.12 g, 7h). Struck circa 218/7-214 BC. Diademed and veiled bust left; [torch to right] / Nike driving fast quadriga right; E below. CCO 49 (D12/R31); BAR Issue 65; HGC 2, 1554; SNG ANS 884 (same dies); SNG Ashmolean 2107 (same dies); Ward 337 (same dies); Weber 1707 (Same dies). Iridescent tone, minor die wear on obverse. EF.
From the North River Collection. Ex Triton X (9 January 2007), lot 102; Rauch 41 (6 June 1988), lot 92.