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Lot 5023

Estimate: 500 USD
Price realized: 1200 USD
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SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 3.49 g, 11h). Unsigned dies in the style of Eukleidas. Struck circa 405 BC. Head of Athena facing slightly left, wearing ornate triple-crested Attic helmet and necklace; four dolphins around / The hero Leukaspis, nude but for crested helmet, holding shield forward on left arm, right arm holding spear forward at his waist, advancing right; lit and garlanded altar in background; to right, forepart of ram lying on its back left; [ΛE]YKAΣΠ[IΣ] in exergue. Boehringer, Münzprägungen, pl. II. 17; HGC 2, 1364; SNG ANS 309-10; SNG Lloyd 1396; Boston MFA 420 = Warren 388; Dewing 861; Gillet 625. Toned, heavy scratches and smoothing. VF.

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