CNG 100, Lot: 1271. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Messana. 425-421 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 16.45 g, 1h). Charioteer, holding reins in both hands, driving slow biga of mules right; above, Nike walking right on reins, crowning mules with wreath held in both hands; leaf with two berries in exergue / Hare springing right; below, dolphin right; MEΣ-Σ-A-N-IO-N around. Caltabiano Series XIII, 487 (D199/R198); HGC 2, 787; SNG ANS 358; SNG Lloyd 1095; Boston MFA 290; McClean 2395; Ognina 145 (all from the same dies). Good VF, toned, some roughness to surfaces.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection, purchased from Maison Platt, September 1982.