A Very Important Series of Coins of Syracuse mostly from a Distinguished European Collector
Decadrachm or 50 litrae circa 405-400, AV 2.89 g. ΣYPAKO – ΣIΩN Young male head l. (the river-god Anapos?). Rev. Horse prancing r.; on the thick exergual line, [ΣYP]AKOΣIΩN. De Ciccio 55 (these dies). SNG Copenhagen 688 (these dies). SNG ANS 341 (these dies). SNG Lloyd 1425 (these dies). Dewing 927 (these dies). Bérend 2. Rare. Obverse from a slightly rusty die, otherwise extremely fine Ex NFA Fixed Price List 35, 1988, 10; NFA XXV, 1990, 33; Waddell Fixed Price List 72, 1997, 2; Stacks & Ponterio 185, 2014, 232 and Stack's & Ponterio August 2016, 2016, 20034 sales. From the E.E. Clain-Stefanelli collection.