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Auction: 12027 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 730

Sicily, Syracuse (c.404-400 BC), AR Dekadrachm, 39.96g, signed by the artist Kimon, charioteer driving fast quadriga left, Nike flying right above to crown him, panoply of arms in ex. rev. head of Arethusa left, hair bound by ampyx, on which is artist´s signature k and held in net behind, four dolphins swim around (Jongkees 3; cf Dewing 869; Rizzo pl. LII, 3), tooled in the fields, the face of Arethusa smoothed, very fine

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