Kimon Dekadrachm

389, Lot: 48. Estimate $10000. Sold for $14000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Dekadrachm (37mm, 41.11 g, 11h). Reverse die signed by Kimon. Struck circa 404-400 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in extended right hand and reins in left, driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with wreath held in her extended hands; below heavy exergual line, a military harness, shield, greaves, cuirass, and Attic helmet, all connected by a horizontal spear; [AΘΛA below] / Head of Arethusa left, wearing single-pendant earring and necklace, hair restrained in an open-weave sakkos and ampyx, [KI (Kimon’s signature) on ampyx]; [ΣΥ]ΡΑΚΟΣΙΩ[Ν] behind hair, four swimming dolphins before and below. Jongkees 9 (dies B/θ); Boehringer, Münzprägungen, pl. II, 14; HGC 2, 1298; SNG Lloyd 1410 (same obv. die); SNG Lockett 989 = Pozzi 612 (same dies); BMC 205–6 (same dies); Jameson 820 (same dies). VF, toned, a bit rough and fields smoothed on obverse, large delamination (filled with natural iron deposit) and off center on reverse. An affordable example of this famous type.

Ex Berk BBS 168 (16 March 2010), lot 90 (incorrect Jongkees number listed).