SYRACUSE SILVER TETRADRACHM – EX E.T. NEWELL EX ANS AND PUBLISHED IN SNG ANS – GOOD FINE NGC GRADED GREEK SICILY COIN (Inv. 20529)

$4,500.00

20529. SICILY. SYRACUSE. Ca. 485-480 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm, 16.61 g, 26 mm.
Obv. Charioteer driving biga right, Nike flying right, crowning horses. Rev. ΣVΡΑϘΟΣΙΟͶ, diademed head of Arethusa right, four dolphins around.
HGC 2, 1303; Boehringer 38 (V26/R22); SNG ANS 7 (this coin published and plated); cf. H. Scharmer, “Die Meister der spatarchaischen Arethusakopfe,” Antike Kunst 10 (1967), pl. 29, 10 (same dies); Boston MFA 330 (same dies).
Ex Gemini V, 1/6/2009, lot 340 (with auction ticket) = deacquisitioned from the American Numismatic Society, inv. 1944.100.55110, Edward T. Newell Bequest in 1944 = ex Moritz Simon Collection, Adolph Cahn 68, 11/26/1930, lot 1101.
Good Fine, dark gray patina, previously encapsulated by NGC with grade of Fine, a coin of late Archaic style, that was acquired by Edward T. Newell in 1930, donated after his death to the ANS, published by the Society in its Sylloge volumes, and subsequently deacquisitioned in 2009.