Drachm - Gelon

Struck well after Gelon II's death, this issue belongs to a Syracuse that had survived the first Punic War only to face Carthaginian pressure from the west and Roman pressure from the east simultaneously. The city minted prolifically in this period to fund military commitments under Hiero II, who maintained an uneasy neutrality that kept Syracuse wealthy and independent longer than any other Sicilian Greek city.

The Lockett reference places this among a well-documented but genuinely scarce die grouping. Lockett 1020 came from one of the most significant private collections of Greek Sicily assembled in the twentieth century.