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Triton XVI, Lot: 209. Estimate $2000.
Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Gela. Circa 440-430 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.37 g, 1h). Charioteer, holding kentron in left hand and reins in both, driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with open wreath held in both hands / Forepart of man-headed bull right; retrograde [CE]ΛAΣ above. Jenkins, Gela, group V, 384.7 (O78/R158 – this coin); SNG ANS 74; Hunterian 6; McClean 2238; Nanteuil 282 (all from the same dies). VF, toned, a few minor scratches under tone.


Ex Elsen FPL 257 (July–September 2011), no. 43; LHS 100 (23 April 2007), lot 155; Kölner Münzkabinett 40 (19 November 1985), lot 1018; A. D. Moretti Collection (Leu FPL [2] Silicia, September 1962), no. 31.