Pedigreed Motya Tetradrachm
Influenced by Kimon

Triton XX, Lot: 65. Estimate $15000. Sold for $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Motya. Circa 400-397 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.08 g, 4h). Head of Arethousa left, hair restrained in an ampyx and open-weave sakkos, wearing triple-pendant earring and pearl necklace; four dolphins swimming around / Crab. Jenkins, Punic 47 (O6/R9); Campana 22; HGC 2, 923 (same dies as illustration); SNG ANS 501 (same obv. die); SNG Lloyd 1138 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 481 (same obv. die); Jameson 667 (same dies); Rizzo pl. LXV, 9. EF, toned, traces of find patina, a touch of die wear on reverse.

Ex Leu 72 (12 May 1998), lot 86; Lanz 26 (5 December 1983), lot 85; Leu 15 (4 May 1976), lot 140.

The head of Arethousa on the obverse of this issue is clearly influenced by the recently issued Syracusan dekadrachms that were engraved by the master Kimon.