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Electronic Auction 445  5 Jun 2019
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Lot 842

Estimate: 300 USD
Price realized: 850 USD
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SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. Electrotype "Dekadrachm" (35mm, 41.22 g, 3h). Unsigned British Museum electrotype by Robert Ready or his sons. Charioteer, holding kentron in extended right hand and reins in left, driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with laurel wreath held in her extended hands; below [heavy exergual line inscribed KIMΩN], a shield, greaves, cuirass, and Attic helmet, all connected by a horizontal spear; AΘΛA below / Head of Arethousa left, wearing single-pendant earring and necklace, hair restrained in an ampyx and open-weave sakkos; four swimming dolphins around, the one below neck inscribed KIMΩN. Head, Guide, Period II.C. –; for prototype: BMC, p. 176, 201. As made, toned.

From the Johnson Family Collection, purchased from William Koonce, 2 May 1969.
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