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452, Lot: 95. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23.5mm, 17.04 g, 11h). Unsigned dies in the style of Eukleidas. Struck circa 400/395-390 BC. Charioteer driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer; in exergue, dolphin right / Head of Arethousa left; four dolphins around. Fischer-Bossert, Coins 91 (V33/R63); HGC 2, 1345; SNG ANS 296; SNG Fitzwilliam 1252 = Pozzi 625; SNG Lloyd 1404; Bement 524; Boston MFA 445 = Warren 379 (all from the same dies). Lightly toned, harshly cleaned, typical die wear on obverse. VF.


From the John L. Cowan Collection. Ex Cederlind 164 (16 May 2012), lot 30; G. Hirsch 275 (22 September 2011), lot 3293; G. Hirsch 118 (20 November 1979), lot 524.