Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 89. Estimate $15000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $14000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AV Dilitron (1.77 gm). Obverse die signed by IM. Struck circa 406 AD. SVRAKOSIWN, head of Athena left, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with serpent, palmette, and vegetative tendrils; IM below neck truncation (signature) / Facing aegis with gorgoneion in center. C. Boehringer, "Ehrenrettung einer syrakusanischen Goldmünze" in FlorNum, pg. 76, 5 = C. Boehringer, "Zu Finanzpolitik und Münzprägung des Dionysios von Syrakus" in Essays Thompson, pl. 38, 12 (this coin); SNG ANS -; SNG Lloyd -; SNG Copenhagen -; Jameson -; Rizzo -; Gulbenkian -; Pozzi -; Weber -. Choice EF. Extremely rare, one of only two specimens known. [See color enlargement on plate 2] ($15,000)

From the James A. Ferrendelli Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 10 (9 April 1997), lot 144; Hess-Leu 3 (27 March 1956), lot 210.

The other known specimen appeared as lot 27 in Classical Numismatic Group XXVI (11 June 1993). The master engraver IM is also known to have engraved Syracusan tetradrachms during this same period (see Tudeer 67).