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Triton XX Sessions 1 & 2  10 January 2017
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Lot 75

Estimate: 15 000 USD
Price realized: 11 000 USD
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SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 17.49 g, 5h). Struck circa 405-400 BC. Charioteer, wearing long chiton, holding kentron in right hand and reins in both, driving fast quadriga right; above, Nike flying left, crowning charioteer with wreath held in her extended hands; ivy leaf on vine below horses to left; in exergue, grain ear left / Head of Arethousa left, hair in ornate sphendone, wearing large hoop earring and linear necklace with small frontal pendant; ΣYPAKOΣI-Ω-N and four dolphins swimming around. Tudeer 82 (V30/R55); HGC 2, 1342; SNG ANS 290; BMC 217–8; Dewing 849; de Luynes 1218; Gillet 658; McClean 2718; J. Hirsch XXXII (Virzi), lot 339 (all from the same dies). Near EF, toned, insignificant double strike on reverse. Well centered on a broad flan.

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