Drachm - Dionysios I

Features

Issuer	Syracuse (Sicily)
Tyrant	Dionysius I the Elder (405 BC - 367 BC)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	410 BC - 405 BC
Value	Drachm (5)
Currency	Litra
Composition	Silver
Weight	4.07 g
Diameter	17 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 184286
References	SNG ANS 5# 308-311 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. , BostonMFA# 420 Agnes Baldwin Brett; 1955. Catalogue of Greek Coins. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. , Jameson# 810 Robert Jameson. Collection R. Jameson. Feuardent, Paris, France (4 volumes). , SNG Lloyd# 1396 Peter Bagwell Purefoy, Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume II - The Lloyd Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (4 volumes). , Dewing# 861 Leo Mildenberg (ed.), Silvia Mani Hurter (ed.); 1985. The Dewing Collection of Greek Coins. American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States (2 volumes). , HGC 2# 1364 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. , Gillet# 625 . Charles Gillet Collection. , Warren# 388 Kurt Regling; 1906. Die griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren. Georg Reimer, Berlin, Germany (2 volumes). , Kunstfreund# 121 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. , de Luynes# 1251-1252 Jean Babelon, Louis Ciani (ed.), Jules Florange (ed.). Catalogue de la collection de Luynes - monnaies grecques. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France (4 volumes).

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Obverse

Head of Athena facing, wearing triple crested Attic helmet, earring and necklace of pendant acorns. Around, four dolphins

Script: Greek

Lettering: ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ

Reverse

Leukaspis, nude but for helmet, striding right, holding spear in his right hand and shield with his left. Behind, square altar, before, sacrificed lamb lying on its back and in exergue, here off the flan as usual, ΛΕΥΚΑΣΠΙΣ

Script: Greek

Lettering:
ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ
ΛΕΥΚΑΣΠΙΣ

Mint

Syracuse, Italy

Comments

Rizzo pl. XLVII, 1; Boehringer, Essays Thompson pl. 38, 6; Lacroix, Travaux Le Rider pl. 19, 10; SNG Delepierre 679; Pozzi 627.

Unsigned dies in the style of Eukleidas.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (410 BC - 405 BC)						$ 200	$ 2700	$ 13 000

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Nomos AG Auction 25 Lot 48	20 Nov 2022	XF	USD 15 200.22 (CHF 12 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Nomos AG
	CNG Auction 85 Lot 201	15 Sep 2010	XF	USD 6500.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Nomos AG Auction 22 Lot 59	22 Jun 2021	XF	USD 11 400.17 (CHF 9000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Nomos AG
	Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 120 Lot 292	6 Oct 2020	XF	USD 11 400.17 (CHF 9000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 54 Lot 59	24 Mar 2010	XF	USD 7600.11 (CHF 6000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Sternberg XVI, 15 Nov 1985, 69; from collections of Conte A. Magnaguti, I, 12 Oct 1949, 354; S. Pozzi, Naville I, 4 Apr 1921, 627; G. Philipsen, Hirsch XV, 28 May 1906, 1189; Rothschild Collection, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 28 May 1900, 149
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	Künker Auction 326 Lot 640	7 Oct 2019	XF	USD 27 913.21 (EUR 24 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex NAC 9, Zurich 1996, No. 220
© Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Osnabrück and Lübke & Wiedemann KG, Leonberg
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Gorny & Mosch Auction 219 Lot 64	10 Mar 2014	XF	USD 12 793.55 (EUR 11 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Gorny & Mosch GmbH Giessener Münzhandlung
	Gorny & Mosch Auction 121 Lot 38	10 Mar 2003	XF	USD 17 445.76 (EUR 15 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Hess-Leu 24.3.1959, Nr. 94
© Gorny & Mosch GmbH Giessener Münzhandlung
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Nomos AG Auction 8 Lot 53	22 Oct 2013	XF	USD 19 000.28 (CHF 15 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Nomos AG
	Nomos AG Auction 6 Lot 25	8 May 2012	XF	Unsold
© Nomos AG