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Auction 30  9 January 2013
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Lot 32

Estimate: 12 000 USD
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ANCIENT COINS. GREEK. Sicily, Syracuse (Deinomenid Tyranny, 485-466 B.C.), Silver Tetradrachm, 17.18g, 7h. Struck under Gelon, c.480 B.C. ΣVRA (in exergue), charioteer, wearing a long chiton, holding a kentron in his right hand and the reins in his left, driving a quadriga left, Nike flies above to right to crown the charioteer. Rev. ΣVR-AQO-ΣI-ON, head of Arethusa facing right, her hair in long corded ringlets, tied with a band, wearing earring and necklace, four dolphins swimming around (Boehringer 37 (V25/R21); Jameson 737 (these dies); D. Knoepfler, SNR 71, 1992, pl. 2, 9 (these dies)). Wonderful late archaic style, very fine. Very rare.
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 7, Zurich, 1-2 March 1994, lot 198
Ex Spink Numismatic Circular, Volume CIV, Number 3, London, April 1996, 1300

Estimate: $12,000
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