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Lot 183 - Auction 24

Sicily, Syracuse, Decadrachm, c. 400-390 BC
Price realized:
14.000,00 GBP
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5

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Description

Sicily, Syracuse, Decadrachm, c. 400-390 BC; AR (g 41,35; mm 36; h 11); Charioteer driving fast quadriga l., flying Nike crowning him; in ex. display of military harness set on two steps, Rv. Head of Arethusa l., wearing wreath of grain, triple pendent earrings and necklace; around four dolphins; below, EΥ – IΑNE. SNG ANS 371; Gulbelkian 310; Rizzo, pl. LIV, 6; Pozzi, pl. LII, 1276; Weber 1614.
Rare and signed by Euainetos. Struck on a very large flan. Nice old cabinet tone, hight relief, very attractive goddess portrait. Extremely fine - good extremely fine.

« The dekadrachm of Euaenetos seems to have been more generally admired than any other coin in antiquity (as in modern times), except perhaps the tetradrachm by Kimon with the facing head of Arethusa; both obverses were often copied in other mints. » Barclay Vincent Head, Historia Nummorum
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