SYRACUSE SILVER TETRADRACHM – EARLY CLASSICAL TYPE EX FAMOUS ARCHITECT FREDERICK J. WOODBRIDGE – VF GREEK SICILY PROVENANCED COIN (Inv. 21170)

$4,250.00

21170. SICILY. SYRACUSE. Ca. 480–475 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm, 17.19 g, 25 mm.
Obv. Charioteer driving quadriga right, Nike flying right, crowning horses. Rev. ΣVΡΑKΟΣΙΟN, diademed head of Arethusa right, four dolphins around.
Boehringer 184 (O82/R126); HGC 2, 1306.
Ex Dr V. J. A. Flynn Collection, Noble Numismatics 116, 11/21/2017, lot 4205 = Status International Sale 310, 2016, lot 8045 = Noble Numismatics Sale 106, 7/29/2014, lot 3336 = Noble Numismatics 63, 3/29/2000, 3459 = ex Frederick J. Woodbridge Collection, Sotheby’s Zurich, 5/7/1975, lot 51.
VF, beautifully centered and of exceptionally good metal.

Frederick J. Woodbridge had a long and distinguished career as an architect, beginning his training with the legendary firm McKim, Mead and White. In 1951–52 he was on a Fulbright Scholarship at the American Academy in Rome, and perhaps it was during this time that his enthusiasm for ancient coins prospered. He also served as architect at the excavations of Antioch in Pisidia, Turkey, as well as at Carthage in Tunisia. Woodbridge was active in teaching and was associated with Colombia University during most of his career. He passed away in 1974 and his collection, including this piece, was auctioned off by Sotheby’s the following year.