Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 93. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $4200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Deinomenid Tyranny. 485-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.04 g, 9h). Struck under Gelon, circa 485-480 BC. Charioteer driving quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses / Diademed head of Arethusa right; four dolphins around. Boehringer series IV, 41 (V26/R25); SNG ANS 7-8 (same obv. die); Weber 1550 (same dies). Good VF, a hint of surface porosity. Rare. Attractive archaic style.