Ancient Gold - Byzantine
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Lot 2008 SESSION 11 (7.30PM WEDNESDAY 26TH NOVEMBER) Ancient Gold - Byzantine
Estimate $800
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SICILY, Syracuse, (405-395 B.C.), period of end of Second Dynasty and Dionysius I, silver litra, (0.73 g), obv. Artemis-Arethusa head to left, **SURAKOSION* before, dolphin behind, dotted border, rev. octopus, (S.-, SNG ANS 293 [possibly same dies], HGC 2, 1378). Toned, good very fine, scarce.
Ex Anthony "Tony" Taylor Collection.^Noble Numismatics Sale 133, lot 3588. From Kunker, Auction Sale 295, September 23, 2017 (lot 207), previously from the collection of Elvera Clain-Stefanelli, NAC Sale 92 (lot 1424).^^Berend connects the head of Arethusa on the obverse with a tetradrachm created by the master engraves Eukleidas (Tudeer 86 and 87, obverse die 32). This present litra is therefore possibly an unsigned work by Eukleidas. It is however a small work of art of an extraordinary fine style.^
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