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Signed by Euainetos?

374, Lot: 153. Estimate $100.
Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. Æ Trias (16mm, 4.54 g). Obverse die signed by Euainetos?. Struck circa 410-405 BC. Head of Arethousa left, hair in sphendone; E behind neck / Star of eight rays within incuse circle in center of quadripartite incuse square. Holloway, Further, Series 2; CNS 18 mv 1 corr. (E not noted); HGC 2, 1481. VF, dark green patina, some smoothing.


From the David Wray Collection.

The high quality of the dies used for these coins leads some to speculate that it is the E on the obverse is the signature of an engraver, particularly that of the famed Euainetos, who is best known for his dekadrachm and tetradrachm issues.