Lot 1856

Description

Sicily, Panormos, (c.410-405 B.C.), silver tetradrachm, (16.714 grams), obv. slow quadriga driven to right by male charioteer, Nike flying right crowning horses, rev. **[PA]NO*R**MITIKON* retrograde around, laureate head of Apollo to right, (S.882 [£1400], Jenkins SNR 50, No.6.3 [this coin], [obverse 2/reverse 6, Pl.7 same dies], Rizzo Plate 64, 24). Old light scratch on the obverse on the horse, otherwise good very fine and extremely rare with only three published examples known including this example.

Ex Hess-Leu Auction Sale 28, 5-6th May 1965 (lot 75, realised 4100 + 10% SFr.). Panormos was the principal Phoenician city in Sicily. It produced a limited coinage in the latter part of the 5th century. The Panormos tetradrachms of this time were copied from other Sicilian tetradrachms (some inluding signatures). This example is a copy from a Katana tetradrachm similar to ACNAC Dewing 581 and Rizzo Pl.11, 4-12.