Signed by Eumenes and Eukleidas

Triton XIX, Lot: 53. Estimate $20000. Sold for $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.37 g, 1h). Obverse die signed by Eumenes, reverse die signed by Eukleidas. Struck circa 413-405 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in extended right hand, reins in left, driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with wreath held in both hands; [E]-VMHNOV in exergue / Head of Arethousa left, wearing hoop earring and pearl necklace; [ΣYPAKOΣIOΣ above,] EVKΛ/EIΔA in two lines on diptych below chin, four dolphins swimming around. Tudeer 24 (V9/R16); SNG ANS 259; BMC 193; Boston MFA 401–2 = Warren 371–2; Hunterian 60; de Luynes 1207; Rizzo pl. XLII, 13 (all from the same dies). Near EF, attractive even gray tone with light golden hues around the devices, a little die rust, minor lamination.

Ex Künker 226 (11 March 2013), lot 242; Numismatica Ars Classica 64 (17 May 2012), lot 722; Numismatica Ars Classica 52 (7 October 2009), lot 75; LHS 102 (29 April 2008), lot 88; Numismatica Ars Classica 29 (11 May 2005), lot 115.