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ANCIENT GREECE - GREEK
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777
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ANCIENT GREECE - GREEK
See original version (French)
Estimate €800
Voluntary lot
Description
ANCIENT GREECE - GREEK
Sicily, Syracuse, Hiero II (274–216 BC). 5 litrai in the name of Philistis, widow of Hiero II, and in the name of K-ND (218–214 BC), Syracuse.
Obverse. Head of Philistis, wearing a diadem and veiled, facing left.
Reverse. ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΑΣ / ΦΙΛΙΣΤΙΔΟΣ. A two-horse chariot in motion to the right, driven by Victory; the letter K in front.
HGC 2, 1559 - SNG ANS - - M. Caccamo Caltabiano / B. Carroccio / E. Oteri, Siracusa ellenistica – The ‘royal’ coins of Hiero II, his family and the Syracusans (1997), 229; Silver – 4.5 g – 17.2 mm – 6 h
NGC XF 5/5 2/5 Fine Style, slight scratches (8769658-024).
Featuring the two-horse chariot on the reverse. With a grey patina. The field on the reverse has been scratched with a needle. TTB.
Queen Philistis is known from her coins and from an inscription at the theatre in Syracuse, where she appears alongside Queen Nereis, wife of Gelon, the son of Hiero II
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