Tetradrachm

Features

Issuer	Katane (Sicily)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	405 BC - 402 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (20)
Currency	Litra
Composition	Srebro
Weight	17.13 g
Diameter	28 mm
Shape	Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique	Młotkowana
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 565222
References	BMC Greek# 34 British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes). , Gulbenkian# 193 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (publisher). A Catalogue of the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection of Greek Coins. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (2 volumes). , SNG Lloyd# 903 Peter Bagwell Purefoy, Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume II - The Lloyd Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (4 volumes). , SNG ANS 3# 1258 Hyla A. Troxell; 1975. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Collection of the American Numismatic Society / Part 3. Bruttium-Sicily 1 (Abacaenum-Eryx). American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States. , Jameson# 548 Robert Jameson. Collection R. Jameson. Feuardent, Paris, France (4 volumes). , Regling Kunstwerk# 547 Kurt Regling; 1924. Die antike Münze als Kunstwerk = The ancient coin as a work of art. Berlin, Germany. , HGC 2# 575 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# 900 Jean Babelon, Louis Ciani (ed.), Jules Florange (ed.). Catalogue de la collection de Luynes - monnaies grecques. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France (4 volumes).

Obverse

(en) Head of Apollo facing, inclined very slightly to left, a bow on left, a lyre on right, AΠΛΛΩN in small letters below the bust, the signature XOIPIΩN on left above the bow.

Script: grecki

Lettering:
AΠΛΛΩN
XOIPIΩN

Engraver: Choirion (Xoipiωn)

Reverse

(en) Charioteer, wearing a long chiton, driving a galloping quadriga to right, preparing to turn around an Ionic column in the background; above, Nike flying left, crowning charioteer with wreath, a crayfish in the exergue.

Script: grecki

Lettering: KATANAIΩN

Mint

Catana, Sicily, modern-day Catania, Italy

Comments

(en)

Mirone 65; Rizzo pl. XIV, 13; Giesecke pl. 5, 2.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (405 BC - 402 BC)								$ 47 000

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Examples of the type

BMC Greek (Sicily) p. 47, 34

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Stacks Bowers January 2022 NYINC Auction Lot 4108	14 Jan 2022	XF (NGC XF 4/5 - 1/5)	USD 36 000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
From Robert Jameson and Arthur J. Evans collections = Jameson 548
© Stacks Bowers
	The New York Sale Auction 27 Lot 135	4 Jan 2012	XF	USD 85 000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Monnaies et Médailles SA, Auction 75, Basel, 4 December 1989, lot 144
© The New York Sale
	CNG Electronic Auction 294 Lot 46	16 Jan 2013	VF	USD 4500.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Gustav Philipsen Collection (Part I, J. Hirsch XV, 28 May 1906), lot 963
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.