NumisBids
  
Baldwin & Sons
Auction 75  26 September 2012
View prices realized

Lot 2163

Estimate: 2200 GBP
Lot unsold
Find similar lots
Share this lot: Share by Email
ANCIENT COINS. A Selection of Syracuse Tetradrachms from an Old Collection. By the Artist 'A...', the First Engraver to Sign his Dies at Syracuse. ex J Pierpont Morgan Collection. Sicily, Syracuse (Second Democracy, 466-405 BC), Silver Tetradrachm, struck c.420-415 BC, charioteer, wearing a long chiton and holding a kentron and the reins, driving a slow quadriga right, Nike flies above to right to crown the horses, olive-leaf with fruit in the exergue, rev ΣYPAKOΣ[IO]N, diademed head of Arethusa facing right, her hair in a sakkos, and wearing a necklace, four dolphins swimming around, 17.04g, 9h (Boehringer 720 (V354/R491); McClean 2683, pl. 94, 4, these dies; Gulbenkian 271, these dies; SNG ANS 242, these dies; Boston 395, these dies).Broad flan, a little ragged in part, the usually encountered die-flaw on the obverse, attractive toning and excellent classical style, good very fine.
ex Credit Suisse, List 53, March 1990, 39

Estimate: £2200-2800
Question about this auction? Contact Baldwin & Sons