SICILY. Syracuse. Pyrrhos, 278-276 BC. AE (Bronze, 22 mm, 11.85 g, 1 h). Head of Herakles to left, wearing lion skin headdress. Rev. ΣYPA-[KOΣIΩN] Athena Promachos advancing right, holding thunderbolt in her right hand and shield in her left. CNS II 176. HGC 2, 1451. SNG ANS 852-8. Struck on a slightly short flan and with some smoothing, otherwise, very fine.

From the collection of Judge Hans-Joachim Specht (1935-2024), started in 1963.