Greek Silver & Bronze
Lot 4938 Session 16 (9.30am Friday) Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $1,000
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SICILY, Syracuse, (c.474-450 B.C.), silver tetradrachm, (16.796 grams), obv. slow quadriga driven to right by male charioteer, Nike flying right crowning charioteer, in exergue a pistrix (sea-serpent), rev. **SURAKO SI ON around to right, head of Artemis-Arethusa to right, wearing diadem. four dolphins around, (cf.S.925 [£950], Boehringer 542 [same dies obverse 275/reverse 376], only other reported example in Brussels Collection). Well centred, attractive uneven tone, nearly very fine and very rare.
Boehringer records only one other example from these dies and this in a museum collection.
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Estimate $1,000
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