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Auction: 1012 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 1231

Sicily, Syracuse (c.400-395 BC), AR Dekadrachm, 43.12g, signed by Euainetos, charioteer driving galloping quadriga left, Nike flying above with open wreath to crown him, display of arms on bar in ex., rev. [ypakoin], head of Arethusa left wreathed with barley, four dolphins swimming around, traces of the artist´s signature eyaine below lowest dolphin (Gallatin RVI / CXII, Dewing 891 – dies), flan slightly short, so legend and signature not evident, attractively toned on good metal, about extremely fine Estimate £ 14,000-16,000 provenance: NAC 8, 3 April 1995, lot 174

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