From the Judd and Baron von Schennis Collections
Century Old Provenance

Triton XVII, Lot: 71. Estimate $30000. Sold for $55000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Dekadrachm (33mm, 42.38 g, 9h). Reverse die signed by Euainetos. Struck circa 404-390 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in extended right hand and reins in left, driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with wreath held in her extended hands; below heavy exergual line, [military harness], shield, greaves, cuirass, and crested Attic helmet, all connected by a horizontal spear; [A]ΘΛA below / Head of Arethusa left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and pearl necklace; ΣΥ-ΡΑ-Κ-ΟΣ-ΙΩΝ above (bottom of letters visible), four swimming dolphins around, and EY-AINE along lower edge. Gallatin dies R.III/C.II, 18 (this coin); HGC 2, 1299; SNG ANS 363 = Pozzi 615; Boston MFA 421–2; Dewing 876–8; Kraay & Hirmer 104; de Luynes 1248 (all from the same dies). Good VF, fine cabinet toning, a touch of porosity on reverse. Struck from fresh dies.

Ex Dr. J.H. Judd Collection (Leu 15, 4 May 1976), lot 119; Hess-Leu (16 April 1957), lot 113; Baron Friedrich von Schennis Collection (J. Hirsch XXXIII, 17 November 1913), lot 464.