Triton XVII, Lot: 40. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Gela. Circa 420-415 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 17.26 g, 7h). Charioteer, holding kentron in left hand and reins in both, driving slow quadriga left; above, Nike flying left, crowning horses with open wreath held in both hands / Forepart of man-headed bull right; retrograde ΓEΛAΣ above. Jenkins, Gela, Group VIII, 472 (O91’/R183); HGC 2, 355; SNG ANS 92; SNG Lockett 769; BMC 47; Pozzi 439; Rizzo pll. XVIII, 1 (all from the same dies). Good VF, deeply toned, struck from a worn obverse die. Man-headed bull of exceptional style.