Lovely Archaic Syracuse Tetradrachm – Ex Basel–Ludwig Collection

Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 287. Estimate $15000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $20500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Early Tyrannies. Circa 500-485 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.47 g, 7h). Charioteer driving quadriga right / Head of Arethusa left in incuse circle in center of quadripartite incuse square. Boehringer series II, - (V20/R13; unlisted die combination); SNG ANS 5; SNG Lloyd 1277 (same obv. die); Basel 423 = G. Giacosa, Uomo e cavallo sulla moneta greca (Milan: Edizione Arte e Moneta, 1973), pls. 8 and 9 (this coin). Good VF, toned. Well centered strike on an exceptionally broad flan, with an elegant head of Arethusa. Very rare.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 73 (13 September 2006), lot 74; Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig (Numismatica Ars Classica 13, 8 October 1998), lot 423.