Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 84. Estimate $3000. Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004. Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.26 gm).
Obverse and reverse die signed by Eumenos. Struck circa 415-405 BC. Charioteer driving galloping quadriga left, holding kentron in right hand, reins in left; Nike flying right above, crowning charioteer, [E]VMHNOV (signature) in exergue /
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SION, head of Arethusa left, surrounded by four swimming dolphins; EVMHN-OV (signature) behind bust. Tudeer 23 (V9/R15); SNG ANS 258 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1367 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 666 (same dies); Jameson 792 (same dies). Good VF, smooth problem free flan. ($3000)
On these dies the master engraver has signed his name in full, and the high action of the horses — a feature of Eumenos' work — is especially conspicuous.