Ex Headlam Collection

CNG 84, Lot: 124. Estimate $5000. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Dekadrachm (33mm, 42.15 g, 7h). Unsigned dies in the style of Euainetos. Struck circa 405-400 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand, reins in left, driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with wreath; below heavy exergual line, [a military harness], shield, greaves, cuirass, and Attic helmet, all connected by a horizontal spear; [AΘΛA below] / Head of Arethusa left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and necklace; Σ-Y-PA-K-OΣ-[IΩN] above, scallop shell behind neck, four dolphins around. Gallatin dies R.XII/F.IV (this coin referenced); SNG ANS 373; Dewing 910 (same obv. die); Boston MFA 427-8 (same obv. die). VF, toned, light porosity and pitting.

Ex Ponterio 151 (12 November 2009), lot 8021; Lawrence Cutler Collection (Numismatic Fine Arts Fall MBS, 18 October 1990), lot 100; SKA 3 (19 April 1985), lot 129; Arthur C. Headlam Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 8 May 1916), lot 112 (sold to Spink for £30/10).

This is the only published coin from this die pairing. Interestingly, all of the recent sales incorrectly identified the obverse die as X, rather than XII.