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Triton XIX Sessions 1 & 2  5 January 2016
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Lot 51

Estimate: 5000 USD
Price realized: 6000 USD
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SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23.5mm, 17.60 g, 9h). Struck circa 430 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand, reins in both, driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with open wreath held in both hands / Head of Arethousa right, hair in sakkos ornamented by a maeander pattern, wearing earring and necklace; ΣYPAKOΣION and four dolphins around. Boehringer Series XX, 642 (V269/R364); HGC 2, 1319; SNG ANS 207; BMC 112; Basel 448; Boston MFA 389; Jameson 783; Pozzi 592; Weber 1591 (all from the same dies). Near EF, toned, some die wear on obverse.


Ex Herbert A. Cahn Collection (Numismatica Genevensis SA VII, 27 November 2012), lot 32; Peter M. Suter Collection (Münzen und Medaillen AG 89, 14 June 2000), lot 72.
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