Artistic Sosion Signed Tetradrachm

Triton XIX, Lot: 52. Estimate $20000. Sold for $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 17.11 g, 12h). Reverse die signed by Sosion. Struck circa 413-405 BC. Charioteer, holding reins in both hands, driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with wreath held in her extended hands / Head of Arethousa left, wearing ampyx and pearl necklace; four dolphins and ΣYPAKO-ΣIO-И around, ΣOΣI/ΩN on ampyx. Tudeer 2 (dies 1/2); HGC 2, 1326; SNG München 1051 (same dies); Boston MFA 398 = Warren 383 (same obv. die); Jameson 788 (same obv. die); de Luynes 1197–8 (same obv. die); Manhattan Sale II, lot 20 = Gemini IV, lot 52 (same dies); Rizzo pl. XLII, 2 (same obv. die). Near EF, toned, hairline flan crack, cleaning scratches on obverse, some porosity on reverse. Struck on a broad flan. Highly artistic.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG 68 (15 April 1986), lot 151; Leu 25 (23 April 1980), lot 71.