SICILY, Syracuse. Philistis, wife of Hieron II. 275-215 BC. AR 16 Litrai – Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 13.18 g, 2h). Struck circa 218/7-215 BC. Diademed and veiled head left; grain ear to right / Nike driving slow quadriga right; crescent above, KIΣ to right, grain ear below. CCO 69 (D17/R46); BAR Issue 65; HGC 2, 1554; SNG Copenhagen 824 (same dies). Lightly toned, remnants of find patina, flan crack, some die rust and a few light scratches on obverse, flan flaw at edge on reverse. Near EF.
Ex Trausnitz Collection (Nomos Obolos 18, 21 February 2021), lot 96, purchased from Münzhandlung Athena, December 1998.
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