Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 70. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $165. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. Æ Tetras (2.23 g, 7h). Obverse die signed by the artist E(uainetos)(?). Struck circa 400 BC. Head of Arethusa left, hair in sphendone; small E behind neck / Octopus. Boehringer, Münzprägungen pl. III, 23; CNS 14; Favorito type 6 (c. 425-420 BC); SNG ANS 392 var. (E not noted); E. Favorito, “The Signed Bronzes of Syracuse,” The Celator 10, 7 (July 1996), fig. 2 (this coin). VF, rough dark green patina.

Favorito, op. cit., pp. 10-11, identifies the E on the obverse of this issue as the signature of the famous artist Euainetos.