Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 62. Estimate $15000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AV 100 Litrai (5.80 g, 3h). Signed by engravers “A” and “K”. Struck circa 400-370 BC. Head of Arethusa left, hair in sakkos adorned with a star, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace; ΣYPAKOΣIΩN before; A [and K] behind / Herakles kneeling right, strangling the Nemean Lion. Bérend Group IV, 26.4 (D15/R15 – this coin); SNG ANS 331; SNG München 1089; Pozzi 606; Weber 1609; McClean 2730; Hirsch 589 (all from the same dies). Near EF, lightly toned, minor die rust on obverse. Well struck.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 47 (16 September 1998), lot 115; Superior (30 May 1990), lot 6755; Aes Rude 9 (7 April 1983), lot 45; Aes Rude 8 (2 April 1982), lot 71 (and front cover coin).

This die is known in an earlier state (Bérend 23) with the “A” signature only. After some period of use, the die was re-cut by “K”, who added his signature to it. These two artists, “A” and “K”, worked concurrently with Euainetos at Syracuse.