Sphendone Signed by Eukleidas
Ex Smith, Cooper, Jameson, and Benson Collections

CNG 102, Lot: 152. Estimate $5000. Sold for $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22mm, 17.32 g, 9h). Reverse die signed by Eukleidas. Struck circa 413-405 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in extended right hand and reins in both, driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with wreath held in both hands; two dolphins confronted in exergue / Head of Arethousa left, hair in ampyx decorated with swan and sphendone decorated with a star, wearing earring and necklace; EVKΛEI along lower edge of sphendone; ΣVPA[KOΣIOΣ] above, four dolphins around. Tudeer 39d (dies 13/23) = Jameson 803 (this coin); HGC 2, 1328; SNG ANS 268; BMC 191; Boston MFA 405 = Warren 373 (all from the same dies). Good VF, lightly toned.

From the Allan Smith, M.D. Collection. Ex Bryan Cooper Collection (New York Sale XX, 7 January 2009), lot 10; Robert Jameson Collection, 803; Frank Sherman Benson Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 3 February 1909), lot 339 (misdescribed in text).