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Auction 75  26 September 2012
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Lot 2154

Estimate: 2000 GBP
Price realized: 1800 GBP
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ANCIENT COINS. A Selection of Syracuse Tetradrachms from an Old Collection. From the Pozzi Collection and Published by Boehringer. Sicily, Syracuse (Deinomenid Tyranny, 485-466 BC), Silver Tetradrachm, struck c.485-480 BC, charioteer, wearing a long chiton and holding a kentron in his right hand and the reins in his left, driving a slow quadriga right, Nike flies above to right to crown the horses, rev :ΣVRAQOΣION, head of Arethusa facing right, her hair tied with a band, and wearing a pearl necklace, four dolphins swimming around, 17.36g, 3h (Boehringer 56 (V30/R27), 5 = Pozzi 553, this coin; Rizzo pl. XXXIV, 12, this reverse die, 19, this obverse die; Boston 335, these dies; SNG ANS 9, this reverse die, 13, this obverse die).Attractive cabinet tone, good very fine / very fine with a fine old pedigree.
This coin published in Die Münzen von Syrakus, E Boehringer (1929), p.123, 56, 5
ex Prof S Pozzi collection, Naville, Lucerne, 4 April 1921, lot 553
purchased from Bank Leu AG, Zürich, 21 September 1982, sold with Bank Leu stock ticket stating "ex Naville I (collection of Dr Pozzi) lot 553.Sold to Baldwin's for 205 Gold Francs"

Estimate: £2000-2500
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