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476650. Sold For $225000

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Dekadrachm (37mm, 43.50 g, 8h). Unsigned dies 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 shield, greaves, cuirass, and Attic helmet, all connected by a horizontal spear and set on pedestal inscribed AΘΛA / Head of Arethousa left, wearing single-pendant earring and pearl necklace, hair restrained in an ampyx and open-weave sakkos; ΣΥ[ΡΑΚΟΣΙ]ΩN behind hair, four swimming dolphins around. Jongkees 11c (dies C/κ) = Regling, Dekadrachmon 11c = Seltman, Greek, pl. 24, 1 = Giacosa pls. XXXVI-XXXVII (this coin); HGC 2, 1298; BMC 204 (same dies); Gulbenkian 307–8 (same dies). EF, beautifully toned, very minor doubling on reverse. Very rare.


Ex Nomos FPL (Winter-Spring 2012), no. 5; Classical Numismatic Group 50 (23 June 1999), lot 509 and front cover; Numismatica Ars Classica 9 (16 April 1996), lot 228; Ars Classica XIII (27 June 1928), lot 337; Naville V (18 June 1923), lot 1112; J. Hirsch XXXIV (5 May 1914), lot 196.

Ex Nomos FPL (Winter-Spring 2012), no. 5; Classical Numismatic Group 50 (23 June 1999), lot 509 and front cover; Numismatica Ars Classica 9 (16 April 1996), lot 228; Ars Classica XIII (27 June 1928), lot 337; Naville V (18 June 1923), lot 1112; J. Hirsch XXXIV (5 May 1914), lot 196