Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XXV 22-23 Sep 2022
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Sicily, Syracuse AV 50 Litrai. Dionysios I, circa 405-400 BC. Youthful bare head of the river-god Anapos to left; ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ around / Horse prancing to right, [ΣYRAKOΣIΩN] between two exergual lines. SNG ANS 341 = Bérend 2,27 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 688 (same dies); BMC 169-171; HGC 2, 1281. 2.89g.
NGC graded VF 5/5 - 4/5 (#6290614-015).
Ex Mark (1914-2005) and Lottie (1924-2020) Salton Collection, collector's tickets included;
Reportedly ex Dr. Feori Pipito Collection, Superior Galleries, 12 December 1987, lot [uncertain].
Anapos was the partner of the nymph Cyane, who both witnessed Hades' abduction of Persephone and tried to prevent it; Hades turned Cyane into a spring on the site of Syracuse, and Anapos into a river (the river Anapo in southern Sicily).
NGC graded VF 5/5 - 4/5 (#6290614-015).
Ex Mark (1914-2005) and Lottie (1924-2020) Salton Collection, collector's tickets included;
Reportedly ex Dr. Feori Pipito Collection, Superior Galleries, 12 December 1987, lot [uncertain].
Anapos was the partner of the nymph Cyane, who both witnessed Hades' abduction of Persephone and tried to prevent it; Hades turned Cyane into a spring on the site of Syracuse, and Anapos into a river (the river Anapo in southern Sicily).