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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Sicily| > |Syracuse| > GS84496
Syracuse, Sicily, Second Democracy, 466 - 405 B.C.
|Syracuse|, |Syracuse,| |Sicily,| |Second| |Democracy,| |466| |-| |405| |B.C.|, The dies for this issue may be the unsigned work of the master engraver Eukleidas who signed very similar tetradrachm dies sharing the same types and style. This issue has traditionally been dated a little later, under Dionysios I, the tyrant of Syracuse, 405 - 367 B.C. Based on recent scholarship, Oliver Hoover dates it 410 - 405 B.C.
GS84496. Silver hemidrachm, SNG ANS 312; SNG Munchen 1095; SNG Cop 674; SNG Lloyd 1398; SNG Lockett 961 981; BMC 231; HGC 2 1369 (R2), F/aF, finest classical style, well centered, rough with lamination defects, pitting, and corrosion, Syracuse mint, weight 1.785g, maximum diameter 14.5mm, die axis 315o, c. 410 - 405 B.C.; obverse head of Athena turned slightly left, wearing triple-crested Attic helmet, four dolphins around, Σ outer left, Y outer right; reverse Charioteer driving fast quadriga left; Nike above flying right and crowning charioteer, two dolphins facing inward in exergue; from the Dr. Sam Mansourati Collection, ex Gitbud & Naumann Auction 21 (7 Sep 2014), lot 35; rare; SOLD











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