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Auction 118  13-14 Sep 2021
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Lot 81

Estimate: 1500 USD
Price realized: 3000 USD
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SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 17.19 g, 2h). Unsigned dies in the style of Eukleidas. Struck circa 405-400 BC. Charioteer driving quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer; in exergue, dolphin swimming left / Head of Arethousa left, large band in hair from under which hair flows upward and backward in flame-like locks (depicting her submerged underwater); four dolphins swimming around. Fischer-Bossert, Coins 89 (V33/R61); Tudeer 89; HGC 2, 1345; SNG Ashmolean 2008; SNG Copenhagen 681; SNG Lockett 978; Dewing 855–6; Gillet 663 (all from the same dies). Toned, some obverse die wear. VF.

From the Sigmund Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 69 (8 June 2005), lot 110.
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