Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 254. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $1750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Himera. Circa 440-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.80 gm). Charioteer driving quadriga right, holding kentron and reins; above, Nike flying left, crowning charioteer / Himera, standing front, head turned left, holding patera over altar, her left hand raised; to right, satyr bathing in fountain beneath lion-headed spout; grain in upper right field. Gutmann-Schwabacher 18 (Q5/H14); Arnold-Biucchi, "La Monetazione D'Argento Di Himera," QT XVII (1988), 20 (same dies); SNG ANS 167 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1021 (same dies). VF, toned, obverse strike a bit weak. ($1500)

From the Tony Hardy Collection.