Facing-Head Athena of Eukleidas with Extensive Pedigree

Triton XVI, Lot: 228. Estimate $5000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.25 g, 7h). Reverse die signed by Eukleidas. Struck circa 413-405 BC. Charioteer, holding flaming torch in right hand and reins in left, driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with open wreath held in both hands; in exergue, grain ear left / Head of Athena, facing slightly left, wearing crested Attic helmet with cheek pieces raised, signed [ΕV/Κ-Λ]ΕΙΔ/[Α] across the bowl; [ΣΥ-Ρ]-ΑΚ-ΟΣΙ[ΩΝ] and four dolphins around. Tudeer 58f (dies 21/36) = Locker Lampson 94 (this coin); Rizzo pl. XLIII, 22; Basel 464; BMC 198–9; de Luynes 1191; Gulbenkian 282 and front cover; Kunstfreund 120; Kraay & Hirmer 111 (all from the same dies). Near VF, toned, smoothing, light porosity, some light marks. One of approximately 18 recorded specimens from these dies, at least 10 of which are in museums.

Ex Berk BBS 143 (18 May 2005), lot 62; Hagen Tronnier Collection (Künker 94, 27 September 2004), lot 404; Collection of a Scholar (Auctiones 20, 8 November 1990), lot 163; A.H. & M.E.H. Lloyd Collection (Helbing, 8 November 1928), lot 3654; Godfrey Locker Lampson Collection, no. 94; Allatini Collection; Berlin Museum Duplicates (A. Hess, 27 October 1902), lot 658; Fox Collection; Thomas Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 23 February 1844), lot 593.