448, Lot: 30. Estimate $500. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.26 g, 6h).
Reverse die signed by Parmenides. Struck circa 405-400 BC. Charioteer driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer; [grain ear in exergue] / Head of Arethousa left, hair in ampyx and sphendone; four dolphins around, ΠAP[ME] below neck. Kreutzer Ib, 37 (
this coin); Fischer-Bossert,
Coins 77; HGC 2, 1342. Heavily corroded surfaces, some deposits. VF.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group 73 (13 September 2006), lot 81; Astarte XVII (8 May 2005), lot 105.