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Signed by Phrygillos

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 169. Estimate $2000. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009. 
Sold For $3650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.34 g, 12h). Obverse die signed by Phrygillos. Struck circa 415-405 BC. Head of Arethusa left, hair in ampyx, with Φ[PY] in tiny letters on front band; four dolphins around / Charioteer driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer; in exergue, grain ear left. Tudeer 53 (dies 18/32); SNG ANS 278; Basel 461; Hirsch 607 (all from the same dies). VF, flan flaw on reverse.