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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Sicily| > |Syracuse| > GB85324
Syracuse, Sicily, c. 405 B.C., Style of Kimon
|Syracuse|, |Syracuse,| |Sicily,| |c.| |405| |B.C.,| |Style| |of| |Kimon|, The finest style, perhaps by one of the greatest masters of numismatic art. The famous master-engravers of Syracuse, who signed their work in gold and silver, also signed some bronze coins. This obverse die shares the style of the Kimon signed die. However, it has the addition of a necklace not seen on the Kimon signed die in Calciati, and it lacks the signature.
GB85324. Bronze hemilitron, Calciati II 45, 19 fr 1; HGC 2 1479; SNG ANS -; SNG Cop -; SNG Munchen -; BMC Sicily -, VF, superb style with a beautiful Arethusa, well centered, reverse not fully struck, grainy surfaces, Syracuse mint, weight 2.851g, maximum diameter 15.4mm, die axis 180o, c. 405 B.C.; obverse head of nymph Arethusa left, hair bound with ampyx and sphendone, wearing hoop earring and wire necklace; reverse wheel of four spokes, ΣY-PA in upper quarters divided by spoke, dolphin head down and inward in each of the lower quarters; very rare; SOLD











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