Tetradrachm

Features

Issuer	Syracuse (Sicily)
Period	Second Democracy (465 BC - 405 BC)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	410 BC - 400 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (20)
Currency	Litra
Composition	Srebro
Weight	16.56 g
Diameter	28 mm
Shape	Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique	Młotkowana
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 185214
References	AMB Basel# 464 Herbert Adolph Cahn, Leo Mildenberg, Roberto Russo, Hans Voegtli; 1988. Griechische Münzen aus Grossgriechenland und Sizilien. Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, Basel, Switzerland. , Kraay&Hirm# 111 Colin Mackennal Kraay, Max Hirmer; 1966. Greek Coins. Thames & Hudson, London, United Kingdom. , BMC Greek# 198-199 British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes). , Gulbenkian# 282 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (publisher). A Catalogue of the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection of Greek Coins. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (2 volumes). , de Luynes# 1191 Jean Babelon, Louis Ciani (ed.), Jules Florange (ed.). Catalogue de la collection de Luynes - monnaies grecques. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France (4 volumes). , Lampson# 94 Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson; 1923. Catalogue of Ancient Greek Coins Collected by Godfrey Locker Lampson. Arthur L. Humphreys, London, United Kingdom. , Kunstfreund# 120 Herbert Adolph Cahn (ed.), Silvia Mani Hurter (ed.), Leo Mildenberg (ed.), Pierre Strauss (ed.); 1974. Griechische Münzen aus der Sammlung eines Kunstfreundes: Auktion am 18. Mai 1974 in Zürich = Greek coins from the collection of an art lover. Bank Leu, Munzen & Medaillen Basel, Zürich, Switzerland / Basel, Switzerland. , Buceti# 491 Giuseppe Buceti; 2010. Monete, storia e topografia della Sicilia greca. Plectica, Messina, Italy. , Tudeer# 58 Lauri Oskar Theodor Tudeer; 1913. Die Tetradrachmenprägung von Syrakus in der Periode der signierenden Künstler = The Tetradrachm Coinage of Syracuse in the Period of the Signing Artists. Druck von W. Pormetter, Berlin, Germany. , Bossert Coins# 58 Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert, Ute Wartenberg, Ute Wartenberg (ed.), Orla Mulholland (trans.); 2017. Coins, Artists, and Tyrants / Volume 33: Syracuse in the Time of the Peloponnesian War. American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States.

Obverse

Quadriga galopująca w lewo, prowadzona przez boginię (Persefonę?) trzymającą lejce w lewej ręce i pochodnię w prawej. Powyżej Nike lecąca w prawo, aby ukoronować kierowcę, a w exergue kłos zboża w lewo Automatically translated

Reverse

Głowa Ateny zwrócona lekko w lewo, ubrana w trójgraniasty hełm attycki ozdobiony palmetami, podwójnym spiralnym kolczykiem i naszyjnikiem z wiszących żołędzi z gorgoneionem pośrodku. W poprzek czaszy hełmu, ΕΥ-Κ/ΛΕΙΔ-Α i wokół, cztery delfiny Automatically translated

Script: grecki

Lettering:
ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ
ΕΥ Κ
ΛΕΙΔ Α

Engraver: Eukleidas (Εὑκλείδας)

Mint

Syracuse, Italy

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
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ND (410 BC - 400 BC)						$ 5900

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Nomos AG Auction 27 Lot 1045	22 May 2023	XF	USD 355 336.26 (CHF 280 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
From the collection of A. Moretti, Numismatica Ars Classica 13, 8 October 1998, 464, displayed at the Antiken Museum in Basel, ex Hess-Leu 31, 6 December 1966, 141 = AMB 464
© Nomos AG
	Nomos AG Auction 8 Lot 52	22 Oct 2013	VF	USD 634 529.04 (CHF 500 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Sotheby’s, 8 July 1996, 23; from the collections of N. B. Hunt I, Sotheby’s 19 June 1990, 81; C. Gillet, Bank Leu/Münzen und Medaillen, “Kunstfreund”, 28 May 1974, 120
© Nomos AG
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: CNG Triton XVI Lot 228	9 Jan 2013	F	USD 6500.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Berk BBS 143 (18 May 2005), lot 62
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Künker Auction 94 Lot 404	27 Sep 2004	F	USD 4887.16 (EUR 4200.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Auctiones 20, 8 Nov 1990, 163; Helbing, 8 Nov 1928, 3654; Godfrey Locker Lampson Collection, no. 94; Allatini Collection; Berlin Museum Duplicates (A. Hess, 27 Oct 1902), 658; Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 23 Feb 1844, 593
© Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Osnabrück and Lübke & Wiedemann KG, Leonberg