CNG 100, Lot: 1267. Estimate $7500. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Gela. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.45 g, 5h). Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand and reins in left, driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with wreath held in both hands; palmette with long tendrils in exergue / Forepart of man-headed bull right; CEΛAΣ above. Jenkins, Gela, Group IV, 354 (O68/R140); HGC 2, 343; SNG ANS 65 (same dies); Gillet 415 (same dies); Gulbenkian 199 = Weber 1323 (same obv. die); Rizzo pl. XVII, 20 (same obv. die). Near EF, toned, a few light marks under tone.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection. Ex Lanz 50 (27 November 1989), lot 61.