Bérend Plate Coin

452, Lot: 94. Estimate $5000. Sold for $19000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AV 100 Litrai – Double Dekadrachm (14mm, 5.76 g, 12h). Struck circa 400-370 BC. Head of Arethousa left, hair in sakkos adorned with a star, wearing single-pendant earring and necklace; ΣYPAKOΣION to left, pellet before neck, star behind / Herakles kneeling right, strangling the Nemean Lion; rocks below. Bérend Group V, 37 (D13/R19 – this coin, illustrated); HGC 2, 1275; SNG ANS 330 (same obv. die); Dewing 925 (same obv. die); Jameson 825 (same obv. die). Toned, some die rust, light smoothing on cheek and neck of Arethousa (not suitable for slabbing). Near EF.

Ex Ariadne Galleries (with Galerie des Monnaies, 9 December 1981), lot 56 (hammer $14,500); Gadoury (1981), lot 103.