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<p>[QUOTE="kazuma78, post: 8188808, member: 17304"]My first gold of the year and also my first significant pickup of 2022. [USER=44357]@AncientJoe[/USER] helped me acquire this one and I'm thrilled after getting skunked at the sales in January. Had this been in one of those sales I don't think I could have touched it, particularly because of the 1906 provenance. So shout out to [USER=44357]@AncientJoe[/USER] ! I owe this acquisition solely to him.</p><p><br /></p><p>SICILY. Syracuse. Dionysius I (406/5-367 BC). AV 20-litrai or tetradrachm (10mm, 0.99 gm, 8h). Attic standard, ca. 406/5 BC. ΣYPA, head of Heracles left, wearing lion skin headdress / Σ-Y/P-A, quadripartite incuse square; small head of Arethusa in central incuse circle, all within incuse circle with double border. SNG ANS 351-4. HGC 2, 1289. NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 5/5.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ex Gustav Philipsen Collection (Hirsch XV, 1906), lot 1175</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1433250[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1433251[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kazuma78, post: 8188808, member: 17304"]My first gold of the year and also my first significant pickup of 2022. [USER=44357]@AncientJoe[/USER] helped me acquire this one and I'm thrilled after getting skunked at the sales in January. Had this been in one of those sales I don't think I could have touched it, particularly because of the 1906 provenance. So shout out to [USER=44357]@AncientJoe[/USER] ! I owe this acquisition solely to him. SICILY. Syracuse. Dionysius I (406/5-367 BC). AV 20-litrai or tetradrachm (10mm, 0.99 gm, 8h). Attic standard, ca. 406/5 BC. ΣYPA, head of Heracles left, wearing lion skin headdress / Σ-Y/P-A, quadripartite incuse square; small head of Arethusa in central incuse circle, all within incuse circle with double border. SNG ANS 351-4. HGC 2, 1289. NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 5/5. Ex Gustav Philipsen Collection (Hirsch XV, 1906), lot 1175 [ATTACH=full]1433250[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1433251[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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