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Lot 90

Starting price: 400 CHF
Price realized: 3800 CHF
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SICILY. Syracuse. Period of the Second Democracy - Dionysios I, 413-399 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 26.00 mm, 17.21 g, 6 h). Charioteer, holding branch in right hand, reins and kentron in left, driving a quadriga rushing to left, about to turn, the head of the second horse raised, that of and third horses turned back to right; above, Nike flying right to crown the driver; in exergue, barley ear. Rev. Σ-Υ-Ρ-Α-ΚΟΣΙΩ-Ν Head of Arethusa to right, hair bound into a knot on the back of her head, wearing triple-pandant earring and simple necklace with a large pearl pendant; in the fields to either side, four dolphins, in pairs, swimming downwards. BMC 225 (same dies). SNG ANS 280 (same dies). Tudeer 61, dies 21/39. Very fine.
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