SICILY, Solus. Circa Late 5th Century BC. Æ Hemilitron (6.91 gm). SOLONTINON, bearded head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Punic 'kfr' retrograde, crayfish right between six pellets. Jenkins, "Coins of Punic Sicily," in SNR 50 (1971), pl. 23, 18; SNG ANS 735ff; Calciati I pg. 310, 6; BMC Sicily -; SNG Copenhagen 608; SNG Morcom 671; Antikemuseum Basel 418 (this coin); Laffaille -; Virzi 1370-1372. Superb EF, dark green patina, two small spots of hard encrustation on the reverse. Among the finest known. ($1500) Triton V Sale, 15 Jan 2002, lot 226. Lot sold for USD 1700. Used by permission of CNG, www.historicalcoins.com