Signed by Parmenides

CNG 105, Lot: 28. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.28 g, 4h). Reverse die signed by Parmenides. Struck circa 413-405 BC. Charioteer, raising right hand and holding kentron and reins in left, driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with wreath; [in exergue, grain ear left] / Head of Arethousa left, hair in ornate sphendone, wearing triple-pendant earring and pearl necklace; ΣYP[AKOΣIΩN] above, ΠAPME below; four dolphins around, one emanating from below her neck. Kreutzer Parme I b, 21 (this coin); Tudeer 77 (dies 27/49); HGC 2, 1342; SNG ANS 287; SNG Ashmolean 203; SNG Lockett 976; SNG München 1065; BMC 212–3; Boston MFA 416 = Warren 378; Jameson 836; Rizzo pl. XLVII, 21 (all from the same dies). Good VF, lightly toned, some die wear on obverse.

From the Olympians Collection. Ex Roma X (27 September 2015), lot 205; Peus 396 (5 November 2008), lot 158; Peus 380 (3 November 2004), lot 254; Peus 357 (28 October 1998), lot 241.