And another Sicilian bronze, I made a mistake.

[Greekcoin21]

Syracuse, AE, Time of Timoleon. HGC 2. 1440.

When coin arrived I realized the obverse is heavily tooled, I realized why the coin was at a very reasonable price. 😭The coin has been passed on to another collector.

[hotwheelsearl]

Too bad. Can’t win them all, often tooling, if not advertised, can only truly be appreciated in person. 

were you not able to request a refund?

[Greekcoin21]

I had the  coin for some time to help train the eye in spotting tooling, now I’m able I hope to spot tooling. Of course I never read the auction description carefully it had mentioned the tooling.

[ambr0zie]

Question - isn't HGC 2 1440 with eagle near the thunderbolt?

My (hopefully unaltered) poor example

[Greekcoin21]

I just double checked 1440 “Barelycorn or Eagle to right” .

SNG. Copenhagen, has 729 and 727 for the issues.

[ambr0zie]

So both under the same entry. Makes sense. 

[dougsmit]

Mine came to me in 1991 as BMC 2.313 but I have not seen the HGC book.  The Favorito book on Syracuse AE also lumped the two together as #31 showing more specimens of the eagle than the barleycorn.   

[Sulla80]

BMC 313 with eagle, 16.9g 25mm

BMC 317 with barleycorn

A few other variants described in BMC:

 Catalogue of Greek Coins, British Museum. Dept. of Coins and Medals; Barclay Vincent Head, Percy Gardner, Reginald Stuart Poole