Euainetos-Signed Die

Triton XVIII, Lot: 393. Estimate $30000. Sold for $35000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AV 100 Litrai – Double Dekadrachm (14.5mm, 5.77 g, 12h). Obverse die signed by Euainetos. Struck circa 400-370 BC. Head of Arethousa left, hair in sakkos adorned with a star, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace; ΣYPAK[OΣION] to left, [E]YA[I] to right / Herakles kneeling right, strangling the Nemean Lion; rocks below. Bérend Group II, 11.II.7 (D8/R6 – this coin); HGC 2, 1275; SNG ANS 324; SNG Ashmolean 2030; SNG Lloyd 1422; Bement 504; Jameson 1925; Rizzo pl. LIV, 11 (all from the same dies). EF, lustrous, a touch of die wear. High relief.

Ex Münzen und Medaillen 61 (7 October 1982), lot 56.