Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 111. Estimate $12500. Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003. Sold For $12500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Syracuse. AR Dekadrachm (43.11 gm). Signed by Euainetos. Charioteer driving galloping quadriga left, holding kentron and reins; Nike flying above, crowning charioteer; below heavy exergual line: a military harness, shield, greaves, cuirass and Attic helmet, all connected by a horizontal spear,
AQL[A] below /
SU-RA-K-OS-IWN, wreathed head of Arethusa left, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace, surrounded by four dolphins; signed [EY-AINE] below lower dolphin. Gallatin obv. R. VIII / rev. C. XVI; SNG ANS 370 (same obverse die); Dewing 907-908 (same obverse die). EF, some light marks, only a trace of obverse die rust, well struck and very attractive. ($12,500)