Sale: Nomos 10, Lot: 10. Estimate CHF6500. Closing Date: Sunday, 17 May 2015. Sold For CHF10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Syracuse. c. 415-405 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 26mm, 17.21 g 1), signed by Eumenes on the reverse. Quadriga galloping to left with its driver, holding the reins with both hands and a goad in his right, crowned by Nike, flying to right above, with a wreath held in both of her hands.
Rev. Head of Arethusa to right, her hair bound tightly around her head, wearing a double-curved earring and a simple necklace; below neck, EVMHNOV; around head, four dolphins, three swimming upwards to left and one swimming downwards to right. BMC 141. De Luynes 1180. SNG ANS 256. Tudeer 19 (
all from the same dies). Nicely toned and clear. Nearly extremely fine.
From an American collection, ex Classical Numismatic Group 82, 16 September 2009, 300.