Beautiful Die by Kimon
Ex Spencer-Churchill and Von Schennis

Triton XVIII, Lot: 388. Estimate $50000. Sold for $75000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Dekadrachm (33mm, 43.31 g, 11h). Reverse die signed by Kimon. Struck circa 405-400 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, a shield, greaves, cuirass, and Attic helmet, all connected by a horizontal spear; [AΘΛA below] / Head of Arethousa left, wearing single-pendant earring and necklace, hair restrained in an open-weave sakkos and ampyx; ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ behind hair, four swimming dolphins around, the one below neck inscribed KIMΩN. Jongkees 5c (dies A/ε) = Regling, Dekadrachmon 5f = SNG Spencer-Churchill 56 = DDTP p. 15 (this coin); HGC 2, 1298; SNG Fitzwilliam 1272–3 (same dies); Gillet 645 (same obv. die); Gulbenkian 304 (same dies); Hunt III 27 (same obv. die); Jameson 1920 (same dies); Kraay & Hirmer 119 (same obv. die); Kunstfreund 126 (same obv. die); Rizzo pl. L, 2 (same obv. die). Good VF, attractive old collection toning, some die rust on obverse. Excellent metal, struck from a beautiful reverse die by Kimon, with a clear full signature.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Triton II (1 December 1998), lot 244; Edward George Spencer-Churchill Collection (Ars Classica XVI, 3 July 1933), lot 763; Ars Classica/Naville XII (27 June 1928), lot 947; Baron Friedrich von Schennis Collection (J. Hirsch XXXIII, 17 November 1913), lot 461.