Silver & Bronze
Lot 2477 SESSION 12 (9.30AM THURSDAY 1ST AUG) Silver & Bronze
Estimate $7,500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $6,000
SICILY, Syracuse, Second Democracy, (c.466-405 B.C.), silver tetradrachm, (17.24 g), obv. slow quadriga driven to right by male charioteer holding kentron in right hand and reins in both hands, above Nike flying right crowning horses, rev. **SU*R**AKOSI ON* around to right, head of Arethusa to right, hair in ornamented sakkos, four dolphins clockwise around, (cf.S.914, Boehringer Series XX 644 [obverse 327/reverse 443, SNG ANS 209 [same dies], BMC 113 [same dies]). Attractively toned, good very fine, has been overstruck, rare.
Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 124, lot 2975. Previously CNG 87, lot 230. Also Numismatica Ars Classica R (17 May 2007), lot 1085; New York Sale V (16 January 2003), lot 46; G. Hirsch 82 (13 February 1973), lot 24.
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Estimate $7,500
Lot 2478
SICILY, Syracuse, (405-375 B.C.), bronze AE hemilitra, (5.01 g), obv. head of Arethusa left, rev. ...
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Lot 2479
SICILY, Syracuse, time of Timoleon, (344-306 B.C., Calciati dates 405-395 B.C.), AE 19, (8.18 g), ...
Estimate $1,000