Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 705. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.29 g, 6h). Dies by Eukleidas (unsigned). Struck circa 405-395 BC. Charioteer driving quadriga left, holding kentron in right hand, reins in both; star above horses' heads; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with wreath; in exergue, grain ear left / SURAK[O]S[ION] (N retrograde), head of Arethusa left, wearing looped earrings and beaded necklace, hair in ampyx and sphendone ornamented with stars, surrounded by four dolphins. Tudeer 87 (V32/R59); cf. Boehringer, Finanzpolitik, pl. 38, 3; cf. SNG ANS 292 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen -; Boston MFA 419 = Warren 384 (same dies); Gulbenkian 296 (same dies); Dewing 852 (same dies); de Hirsch 609 (same dies). Good VF, dark cabinet tone. ($2000)

Ex Leu 81 (16 May 2001), lot 109; Naville-Ars Classica IV (17 June 1922), lot 370.

The use of a symbol on the obverse (here a star) is very rare in this series. Missed by both Tudeer and Regling (Warren), Brett (Boston MFA) was the first to notice the star on this issue.