SICILY. Himera. Circa 483-472 BC. Didrachm (Silver, 20 mm, 8.77 g, 11 h). ΗΙΜΕRΑ Rooster standing to left. Rev. Crab, seen from above, with an annulet at the center of its shell; all within a shallow circular incuse. Buceti 17. C. M. Kraay & P. Naster, La monetazione archaica di Himera fino al 472 A.C., Atti Napoli 1969, pls. 3, 11 and 13, 16 = SNG Lockett 785 = Westermark, Himera, 104, 1 (O15/R76, this coin). SNG ANS 158. SNG Delepierre 559 (same dies). Sharply struck and nicely toned. Striking split, otherwise, about extremely fine.
Ex Elsen 70, 15 June 2002, 21 and Leu Numismatics 77, 11 May 2000, 78, from the Athena Fund, Sotheby's Zurich, 7 October 1993, 204, and from the collections of R. C. Lockett, II, i, 25 October 1955, 667 and Prof. S. Pozzi, Naville I, 21 April 1921, 452.