Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 100. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Deinomenid Tyranny. 485-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.20 g, 4h). Struck under Hieron I, circa 478-475 BC. Charioteer driving quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses / Diademed head of Arethusa right; four dolphins around. Boehringer series VIIIb, 144 (V64/R99); SNG ANS 40; McClean 2598; Ward 248; Randazzo 304-6 (all from the same dies). Good VF, lightly toned, partial flat strike, a bit of roughness.