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KIMON BRONZE
  • Kimon's Tetradrachms
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  • Kimon Bronze

    Bronze coins by an in the style of kimon.


    SICILY, Syracuse. Circa 405-400 BC. AV 100 Litrae - Double Dekadrachm (5.78 gm). ?V[RAKO?????, head of Arethusa left, hair in ampyx and sphendone decorated with stars; globule before and behind / Nude young Herakles strangling the Nemean lion. Bérend 11; SNG ANS 329 (same dies); SNG Lockett 985 (same dies); Good VF, some light die rust on reverse.


    d=15 mm Double-decadrachm signed by Kimon circa 400, AV 5.78 g. SURAK[OSION] Head of Arethusa l., hair elaborately waved and caught up behind in sphendone ornamented with star and wearing necklace, bar and triple-pendant earring; behind head, barley-grain and signature KI. Rev. Naked your Heracles kneeling r. on rocky ground, head to front, strangling the Nemean lion with both arms; on the foreground, barley-grain. Rizzo pl. 50, 9 (these dies). Gulbenkian 321 (these dies). SNG ANS 319 (these dies). Bérend 1.6 (this coin). Very rare. The obverse as usual from a slightly rusty die, otherwise extremely fine

    d=15 mm Double decadrachm signed by Kimon circa 400, AV 5.78 g. SURAKOSIWN Head of Arethusa l., wearing necklace, bar and triple-pendant earring; hair elaborately waved and caught up behind in sphendone ornamented with stars. Behind head , barley grain and signature, [KI]. Rev. Naked young Heracles kneeling r. on rocky ground, head to front, strangling Nemean lion with both arms; on the strip of ground, barley grain. Rizzo pl. 50, 9 (these dies). SNG ANS 319 (these dies). AMB 475 (these dies). G. De Ciccio, Gli aurei siracusani di Cimone ed Eveneto, pl. 1, 2 (this coin). D. Berénd, Le monnayage d’ or de Syracuse sous Denis I, Atti VIII convegno del centro internazionale di studi numismatici, 1983, 1.3 (this coin). Very rare. Of superb classical style, the obverse as usual from a slightly rusty die,

    SICILY, Syracuse. Time of Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AV Double Dekadrachm - 100 Litrae (5.78 gm). Struck circa 396 BC. [S]URAKOSIWN, head of Arethusa left, hair in ampyx and sphendone decorated with stars; star behind / Nude young Herakles strangling the Nemean lion, club below. C. Boehringer, "Zu Finanzpolitik und Münzprägung des Dionysios von Syrakus" in Essays Thompson, pl. 38, 15 var. (obverse symbol); Bérend 43.7 = SNG ANS 339 (same dies); cf. SNG Lloyd 1420; SNG Copenhagen -; Jameson 825; Rizzo pl. 53, 11 (same dies); Gulbenkian 325; cf. Pozzi 1265; cf. Weber 1609. EF.

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