338, Lot: 9. Estimate $500. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Hieron I. 478-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22mm, 17.43 g, 9h). Struck circa 478-475 BC. Charioteer driving quadriga right, holding kentron and reins; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses / Diademed head of Arethusa right, surrounded by four dolphins swimming clockwise. Boehringer 121 (V55/R82); SNG ANS 32 (same obv. die). VF, minor horn silver on obverse.

Ex Cornelius C. Vermeule III Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 50, 23 June 1999), lot 486.

An unusual reverse die, with the diadem made of a ribbon instead of a band of pearls. The only die as such.