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Auction 30  9 January 2013
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Lot 38

Estimate: 4500 USD
Price realized: 3600 USD
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ANCIENT COINS. GREEK. Sicily, Syracuse (second Democracy, 466-405 B.C.), Silver Tetradrachm, 16.82g, 8h. Struck c.450-440 B.C. Charioteer, wearing a long chiton, holding the reins, driving a quadriga right, Nike flies above to right to crown the horses, ketos to right in the exergue. Rev. ΣV-PAKOΣ-I-O-N, head of Arethusa right, her hair bound with a fillet, wearing an earring and necklace, four dolphins around (Boehringer 534 (V273/R375); SNG Lockett 937 (these dies); Rizzo, pl. XXXVII, 12 (this obverse die); Antikenmuseum Basel 439 (this obverse die)). Struck on a very broad flan, lightly toned, extremely fine.
Ex Leu Numismatik AG, Auction 54, Zurich, 28 April 1992, lot 33

Estimate: $4,500
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