Ex Ferrendelli and Knoepke Collections

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 63. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AV Tetradrachm - 20 Litrai (1.16 g, 2h). Struck circa 405-400 BC. Head of Herakles left, wearing lion skin; ΣYP-A before / Quadripartite incuse square, Σ-Y-P-A in quarters; in deeper incuse circle in center, small female head (Arethusa?) left, wearing necklace. Bérend pl. XI, 3; Boehringer, Münzprägungen, pl. I, 6; Rizzo p. 225, fig. 53, b; SNG Lloyd -; SNG ANS 351; Pozzi 1263 (same dies); Dewing 865 (same dies). Superb EF, slight die shift on obverse.

Ex James A. Ferrendelli Collection (Triton VII, 13 January 2004), lot 90; Olga H. Knoepke Collection (Glendining's, 10 December 1996), lot 88.