Tetradrachm

Features

Issuer	Syracuse (Sicily)
Period	Second Democracy (465 BC - 405 BC)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	415 BC - 409 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (20)
Currency	Litra
Composition	Srebro
Weight	17.23 g
Diameter	22.5 mm
Shape	Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique	Młotkowana
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 407387
References	SNG ANS 5# 255 Denyse Bérend; 1988. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Collection of the American Numismatic Society / Part 5. Sicily 3 (Syracuse-Siceliotes). American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States. , SNG Lloyd# 1366 Peter Bagwell Purefoy, Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume II - The Lloyd Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (4 volumes). , HGC 2# 1327 Oliver D. Hoover; 2012. Handbook of Coins of Sicily (Including Lipara) / Volume 2: Civic, Royal, Siculo-Punic, and Romano-Sicilian Issues : Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. , de Luynes# 1189 Jean Babelon, Louis Ciani (ed.), Jules Florange (ed.). Catalogue de la collection de Luynes - monnaies grecques. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France (4 volumes). , Gillet# 608 . Charles Gillet Collection. , Tudeer# 17 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.

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Obverse

(en) Charioteer driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer; below, crane standing left; in exergue, fish and dolphin swimming left.

Reverse

(en) Head of Arethousa left, hair wrapped in thin band; four dolphins around.

Script: grecki

Lettering: ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΟΝ

Mint

Syracuse, Italy

Comments

(en)

Fischer-Bossert, Coins 17.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (415 BC - 409 BC)							$ 3600

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Examples of the type

SNG ANS 255

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: CNG Auction 118 Lot 79	13 Sep 2021	VF	USD 3750.00 (+ buyer's premium)
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	CNG Auction 102 Lot 149	18 May 2016	VF	USD 2600.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.