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Auction 30  9 January 2013
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Lot 50

Estimate: 5500 USD
Price realized: 7000 USD
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ANCIENT COINS. GREEK. Sicily, Syracuse (second Democracy, 466-405 B.C.), Silver Tetradrachm, 17.20g, 9h. Obverse and reverse dies signed by the artist Euianetos, struck c.415-405 B.C. Charioteer, wearing a long chiton and holding a kentron and the reins, driving a fast quadriga to right, Nike flies above to left, holding a wreath on which is hung a tablet inscribed [EYAIN / ETO] in two lines, two dolphins swimming to right and to left in the exergue. Rev. ΣYPAKOΣIΩN, head of Arethusa facing left, four dolphins swimming around, [EYAI] on the lower dolphin to left (Tudeer 42 (V14/R24); Gulbenkian 277 (these dies); Boston 407 (these dies); Rizzo, pl. XLIII, 3 (this reverse die); Kraay – Hirmer, pl. 33, 101 (these dies); du Chastel 74 (these dies)). Beautiful style, very fine. Very rare.
Ex F. Sternberg, Auction XX, Zurich, 20 April 1988, lot 393
Ex Credit Suisse, 53, 1990, 40

Estimate: $5,500
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