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Sale: CNG 60, Lot: 212. Estimate $3000. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2002. 
Sold For $3300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Circa 405-395 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.16 gm). Charioteer driving galloping quadriga left, holding kentron in right hand, reins in both hands; Nike flying above and crowning charioteer, dolphin swimming left in exergue / Head of Arethusa left wearing double looped earrings and a necklace with a small pendant, large band in hair from under which hair flows upward and backward in flame-like locks (depicting her hair floating beneath the water), surrounded by four dolphins swimming. Tudeer 104 (V35/R71); SNG ANS 300 (same dies); Jameson 809 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1407 (same dies); Gulbenkian 298 (same dies). Lightly toned EF. ($3000)

Ex Triton III (30 November - 1 December 1999), lot 288.