Ex ANS, Leggett, Woodward, and Weber Collections

Triton XIX, Lot: 60. Estimate $3000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AV 50 Litrai – Dekadrachm (11mm, 2.86 g, 2h). Struck circa 400-370 BC. Head of young male (Anapos?) left; ΣYPA to left, barley grain to right / Horse prancing right on exergue line inscribed [ΣYP]AKOΣI[ΩN]; all within shallow incuse square. Bérend 10.22 (D4/R4) = Woodward 130 = Weber 1610 (this coin); HGC 2, 1281; SNG ANS 347; Bement 507; Boston MFA 436 = Warren 354; Gillet 704; Jameson 1918; de Luynes 1239 (all from the same dies). EF, toned, a few scrapes.

From the Leonidion Collection. Ex Harlan J. Berk Inventory cc63651; Duplicates from the American Numismatic Society (Gemini V, 6 January 2009), lot 370; ANS inventory 1997.9.82; John D. Leggett, Jr. Collection (1997); William Harrison Woodward Collection, 130; Sir Hermann Weber Collection, 1610.