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Auction 100  27 September 2016
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Lot 175

Estimate: 1000 GBP
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ANCIENT COINS, GREEK COINS, Sicily, Syracuse (Second Democracy, 466-405 BC), Silver Tetradrachm, struck c.420-415 BC, charioteer, wearing long chiton and holding a kentron and the reins, driving a slow quadriga right, Nike flies above to right to crown the horses, grasshopper to right in the exergue, rev ΣYPAK[OΣI]ON, head of Arethusa facing right, her hair in a sakkos, four dolphins swimming around, 17.35g, 4h (Boehringer -, cf 727-728 (V360/R495); Rizzo pl. XL, 17 (this reverse die); McClean 2682, pl. 94, 3 (this reverse die); Jameson 781 (this reverse die); Pozzi 590 (this reverse die)). Of confident and attractive style, toned, very fine, a very rare die combination, not recorded by Boehringer.
ex Spink Numismatic Circular, volume XCI, number 6, London, July 1983, item 4535

Estimate: £1000-1500
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