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Auction X 13 January 2013
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Sicily. Syracuse. c. 400 BC. Tetradrachm, 17.05g. (12h). Obv: Fast quadriga in three-quarter view, driven to left, third horse with head turned back, above Nike flying right to crown the charioteer, in exergue dolphin left. Rx: ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ Head of Arethusa facing left, wearing double earring and necklace, hair covered in a sakkos, engraver's signature ΕΥΚΛΕΙ on a pinakion below truncation, four dolphins around. Tudeer 88 (V33/R60). SNG ANS 295 (this coin). SNG Oxford 2007. Toned. Good VF.
Ex Gemini V, 6 January 2009, lot 374. Ex American Numismatic Society Inv. 1944.100.55798, Edward T. Newell Bequest, 1944. Ex Hirsch XXIII (1909), lot 486..
This highly desirable type with Arethusa's hair blowing upward occurs on fourteen dies, but only one of them bears the artist's signature. Eukleidas' Arethusa 'with the blowing hair' can be considered the last artistic sign of life of the Syracusan democracy, for the tyrant Dionysios was soon to take power there, changing the coinage from tetradrachms to decadrachms which he used to pay his mercenaries. Our coin is from the collection of Edward T. Newell, highly regarded numismatic author and president of the American Numismatic Society from 1916 until his untimely death in 1941. Newell bequeathed his vast collection of ancient coins to the ANS, who de-accessioned this particular piece as a duplicate four years ago.
Ex Gemini V, 6 January 2009, lot 374. Ex American Numismatic Society Inv. 1944.100.55798, Edward T. Newell Bequest, 1944. Ex Hirsch XXIII (1909), lot 486..
This highly desirable type with Arethusa's hair blowing upward occurs on fourteen dies, but only one of them bears the artist's signature. Eukleidas' Arethusa 'with the blowing hair' can be considered the last artistic sign of life of the Syracusan democracy, for the tyrant Dionysios was soon to take power there, changing the coinage from tetradrachms to decadrachms which he used to pay his mercenaries. Our coin is from the collection of Edward T. Newell, highly regarded numismatic author and president of the American Numismatic Society from 1916 until his untimely death in 1941. Newell bequeathed his vast collection of ancient coins to the ANS, who de-accessioned this particular piece as a duplicate four years ago.