Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 4585 Session 16 (9:30am Friday) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $670
SICILY, Syracuse, (485-480 B.C.), silver tetradrachm, (16.79 g), obv. slow quadriga driven to right by male charioteer, Nike flying right crowning horses, rev. **S*VRA KO**SI ON* around to right, head of Artemis-Arethusa to right, hair waved and turned up behind under diadem of beads, four dolphins around, (cf.S.913, Boehringer 334 [obv.165/rev.234 same dies]). Some surface porosity on the obverse, otherwise very fine/nearly very fine and rare.
Boehringer noted only one example from these dies.
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