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Lot no. 13
SICILY, SILVER TETRADRACHM OF GELA, ca. 410 BC, 17.190g, 2h. Jenkins 484 (same dies). Very rare. Attractively toned. Perfectly centered on a broad flan. Of splendid classical style. Overstruck on an uncertain type. Extremely fine. Kricheldorf 1971 (23) lot 11 This coin is one of the last to be struck before the Carthaginian destruction of the city in 405 BC. Furthermore Kenneth Jenkins suggested that the obverse die could be an unsigned work of Kimon, based in particular on the depiction of the quadriga and the floating hair of the charioteer.
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