1080462 | GREEK. SICILY. Syracuse. Dionysios I. (Tyrant, 407-367 BC). Struck circa 400-370 BC. AV 100 Litrai or Double Decadrachm. NGC Ch. AU (Choice About Uncirculated) Strike 2/5 Surface 4/5 Die shift. 14mm. 5.80gm. [ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ]. Head of Arethusa to left, her hair bound up in a sphendone ornamented with star, wearing a single-pendant earring and a pearl necklace / Youthful Herakles kneeling to right on rocky ground line, grappling with the Nemean lion. Berend Group III, 18 (D13/R10)-- this coin; HGC 2, 1275; SNG ANS 330 (same obverse die); Jameson 825 (same obverse die).

Much more attractive than the grade suggests; NGC has seemingly downgraded the strike designation for the obverse die shift.

Berend plate coin. Ex. Gerald F. Borrmann (Northern California Gentleman) Collection; reportedly purchased from Dr. Arnold Saslow, June 1986. Includes original collector's ticket.


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