★ Plate coin in HGC ★

SICILY. Syracuse. Dionysios I, 405-367 BC. Drachm (Bronze, 31.5 mm, 32.41 g, 2 h), circa 395-367 BC. ΣYPA Head of Athena to left, wearing wreathed Corinthian helmet. Rev. Eight-rayed star between two opposed dolphins swimming upwards. CNS 62. HGC 2, 1436 ( this coin ). SNG ANS 455. SNG Lloyd 1452. With an attractive green-red-brown patina. Some areas flatly struck, otherwise, about extremely fine.

Ex Triton XII, 6 January 2009, 107 and from an American collection acquired in 2003.