Ex Mallinson, Woodward, and the Avola Hoard of 1914
Signed by Kimon

Triton XVIII, Lot: 392. Estimate $30000. Sold for $65000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AV 100 Litrai – Double Dekadrachm (15mm, 5.77 g, 5h). Obverse die signed by Kimon. Struck circa 400-370 BC. Head of Arethousa left, hair in sakkos adorned with a star, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace; ΣYPAKOΣION to left, barley grain and KI to right / Herakles kneeling right, strangling the Nemean Lion; barley grain on rocks below. Bérend Group I, 1.7 (D1/R1) = Woodward 125 (this coin); HGC 2, 1275; SNG ANS 319 (same dies); Gulbenkian 320 = Rizzo pl. L, 9 (same dies); Gulbenkian 321 (same dies). EF, lightly toned, some die rust on obverse. Rare issue with barley grain.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Arnold Mallinson Collection (Spink 39, 6 December 1984), lot 42; William Harrison Woodward Collection, 125; 1914 Avola hoard (IGCH 2122).