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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 141. Estimate $1000. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004. 
Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Time of Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AV Tetradrachm - 20 Litrae (1.18 gm). Struck circa 405 BC. Head of Herakles left, wearing lion's skin headdress / Quadripartite incuse square, S-U-R-A in each quarter; small female head (Arethusa?) left in deeper incuse circle in center. C. Boehringer, "Zu Finanzpolitik und Münzprägung des Dionysios von Syrakus," Essays Thompson, pl. 38, 13; SNG ANS 350; Rizzo pl. 48, 7. Good VF, nicely centered, some obverse die rust. ($1000)