Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 60. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.29 g, 1h). Dies signed by Eumenes and Eukleidas. Struck circa 415-405 BC. Charioteer driving fast quadriga left, holding kentron in right hand, reins in both; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with laurel wreath; EY below; in exergue, dolphin chasing fish to right / SURAKOSION, head of Arethusa left, wearing earring and necklace; EUKL/EIDA below neck; four dolphins around. Tudeer 31 (dies 11/21); SNG ANS 262; SNG Lloyd 1372; BMC 147; McClean 2708 (all from the same dies). EF, lightly toned. Both signatures clearly visible.

From Collection C.G. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 63 (21 May 2003), lot 114.

In the last two decades of the 5th century BC Syracuse was the focus of an unparalleled experiment in Greek numismatics. Its economy was fueled by the vast amount of currency required to pay the mercenaries by which the city's hegemony expanded, and the high denomination silver coins struck at this time became canvases for the most brilliant engravers of antiquity. The artists who engraved these tetradrachms, Eumenes, Sosion, Euainetos, Euthymos, Phrygillos, and Kimon, were held in high regard in their own day, and allowed to place their names prominently on products of their workshops.