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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 299. Estimate $1500. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009. 
Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.37 g, 12h). Struck circa 420-415 BC. Charioteer driving quadriga right; above, Nike flying left, crowning charioteer / Diademed head of Arethusa right; four dolphins around. Boehringer series XXIV, 721-2 var. (V355/R- [unpublished rev. die]); SNG ANS 243-4 (same obv. die). Good VF, lightly toned, usual short flan, a couple minor die breaks on reverse.


Ex Collection C.G. (Classical Numismatic Group 76.1, 12 September 2007), lot 156; Classical Numismatic Group 40 (with Numismatica Ars Classica, 4 December 1996), lot 863.