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NYINC Signature Sale 3037 Sess. 2-4 5 January 2015
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SICILY. Camarina. Ca. 425-405 BC. AR tetradrachm (26mm, 17.18 gm, 12h). Athena driving racing quadriga left, Nike flying right above holding wreath to crown driver, heron flying left in exergue / ΚΑΜΑΡΙΝΑΙΟΝ, bearded head of mature Heracles left, wearing skin of Nemean lion. Westermark-Jenkins 142 (same dies). Rizzo plate V, 9 (same dies). Very rare. With a powerful head of the Heracles in the finest style. Attractive light brown-gray toning. A few minor die breaks. NGC XF 4/5 - 5/5, Fine Style. From The California Collection. Ex Peter Guber Collection (Manhattan Sale II, 4 January 2011), lot 9 (realized $20,000). Same dies and similar grade to Numismatic Genevensis 7 (12 November 2012), lot 7 (realized $80,758). Founded in 599 BC, Camarina began striking large denomination coins in about 425 BC and immediately produced a masterpiece. The design featured a Syracusan-style galloping quadriga on the obverse, and on the reverse a powerful and mature head of Heracles wearing the skin of the Nemean lion. The Heracles type advertised Camarina's Dorian origins and was widely copied in the Greek world, ultimately, in somewhat modified form, being adopted by Alexander the Great of Macedon. Camarina's period of peace and prosperity was relatively brief, however, as the city suffered repeated depredations in the Carthaginian wars of the fourth century BC. The last bronze coins were struck there circa 300 BC.
Estimate: 14000-28000 USD
SICILY. Camarina. Ca. 425-405 BC. AR tetradrachm (26mm, 17.18 gm, 12h). Athena driving racing quadriga left, Nike flying right above holding wreath to crown driver, heron flying left in exergue / ΚΑΜΑΡΙΝΑΙΟΝ, bearded head of mature Heracles left, wearing skin of Nemean lion. Westermark-Jenkins 142 (same dies). Rizzo plate V, 9 (same dies). Very rare. With a powerful head of the Heracles in the finest style. Attractive light brown-gray toning. A few minor die breaks. NGC XF 4/5 - 5/5, Fine Style. From The California Collection. Ex Peter Guber Collection (Manhattan Sale II, 4 January 2011), lot 9 (realized $20,000). Same dies and similar grade to Numismatic Genevensis 7 (12 November 2012), lot 7 (realized $80,758). Founded in 599 BC, Camarina began striking large denomination coins in about 425 BC and immediately produced a masterpiece. The design featured a Syracusan-style galloping quadriga on the obverse, and on the reverse a powerful and mature head of Heracles wearing the skin of the Nemean lion. The Heracles type advertised Camarina's Dorian origins and was widely copied in the Greek world, ultimately, in somewhat modified form, being adopted by Alexander the Great of Macedon. Camarina's period of peace and prosperity was relatively brief, however, as the city suffered repeated depredations in the Carthaginian wars of the fourth century BC. The last bronze coins were struck there circa 300 BC.
Estimate: 14000-28000 USD