Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 3616 Session 12 (11.30am Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $600
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $500
SICILY, Syracuse, (c.485-478 B.C. revised date 467-461), silver tetradrachm, (17.05 gm), obv. fast walking quadriga driven to right by bearded male charioteer, Nike flying right crowning horses, rev. **SUPAKO SION* around to right, head of Artemis-Arethusa to right, hair slightly waved and turned up behind under diadem of beads, four dolphins around, (cf.S.914, Boehringer 93 same dies (obverse 45/reverse 62 dies), Hunter 9). Lightly toned, very fine/nearly very fine and very rare.
Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 78 (lot 4936). Boehringer notes only 4 specimens from these dies. The lower dating of this tetradrachm follows D. Knoepfler (SNR 72 [1993] pp.12-27), who argued that four of the Boehringer's series were minted concurrently, using several anvils, until 461 or slightly later, when production decreased dramatically and only one anvil was required.
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Lot 3616 This lot
SICILY, Syracuse, (c.485-478 B.C. revised date 467-461), silver tetradrachm, (17.05 gm), obv. fast walking quadriga ...
Estimate $600
Lot 3617
SICILY, Syracuse, (c.445 B.C.), silver tetradrachm, (17.16 gm), obv. quadriga to right, Nike flying above ...
Estimate $750
Lot 3618
SICILY, Syracuse, (c.445 B.C.), silver tetradrachm, (17.20 gm), obv. quadriga to right, Nike flying above ...
Estimate $1,000