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E-Sale 102  3 Nov 2022
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Lot 1518

Estimate: 50 GBP
Price realized: 360 GBP
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18th Century Copy: Sicily, Syracuse AR Tetradrachm. Unknown maker. Circa 405-400 BC. Signed by Eukleidas. Charioteer driving galloping quadriga to left, holding reins and flaming torch; Nike flying to right above to crown the charioteer, [ear of barley] in exergue / Head of the nymph Arethusa to left, wearing triple pendant earring and necklace, and with hair enclosed in sphendone ornamented with stars and knotted over the ampyx; four dolphins and ΣYRAKOΣIO[N] around. For prototype, cf. Tudeer 57; cf. Kraay-Hirmer pl. 38, 110; cf. Boston MFA 410; cf. Gulbenkian 281; cf. Savoca Blue Auction 4, lot 1743 (same dies). 11.15g, 27mm, 12h.

Condition as seen.

From a private English collection.

Though not a maker's mark that this cataloguer has come across before, we must assume that the lettering SCES in the obverse exergue is an abbreviated company name or suchlike.
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