Ancient Coins

GREEK COINS, Greek Coins, Mytistratos, Hemilitron, c. 354-344, bearded head of Hephaistos right, wearing pileus, rev. y m and six pellets within laurel wreath, 26.43g/10h (CNS III, p.293, OS/9). Overstruck on uncertain type, good fine, dark brown patina, an extremely rare mercenary issue (£200-250)

Mytistratos, probably located near modern Marianopoli, was a city in the interior of Sicily settled by mercenaries, possibly from Lucania, who had served under Timoleon. All the city’s coins are bronze and overstruck on other coin types, usually Syracusan bronzes